WellPoint and other insurers are adding customers as people buy insurance through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the law that requires all Americans to have health insurance and provides subsidies and online shopping markets for them to do so.

Oregon, a state that strongly supported President Barack Obama and his healthcare reform effort, turns out to be a hotbed for small employers intent upon getting around key provisions of PPACA.

Theres very little thats defined about defined contribution plans, leaving employees to their own devices and too often with little or no money saved for retirement, one of the governments top regulators said Tuesday.