Obese kids who remain overweight as adults could cost society a great deal and not only for increased health care needs, a Brookings Institute study says.

Should the Supreme Court gut premium subsidies, 9.8 million fewer residents in non-Medicaid expansion states would have health insurance in 2016, and the states would miss out on $721 billion of federal funding from 2016 to 2025.

More people work for small businesses than large, but small business employees have the deck stacked against them for retirement. Many small businesses dont, or cant, provide such things as 401(k) plans or even SEP-IRAs, which makes it difficult for their employees to make sure they have enough put away...

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sent a letter co-signed by 35 other Republican Senators urging Labor Secretary Thomas Perez to extend the 75-day comment period on the agencys proposed fiduciary rule to 120 days.