Participants in a study who were given the chance to consider several policy changes to shore up the Social Security system favored reducing payments to high wage earners, raising the retirement age and other remedies that would eliminate most of the systems debt.

Private plan enrollees are paying a net premium of $106 per month.

CMS fine-tunes guidance on private efforts to help sick people pay for exchange coverage.

Return on investment in wellness, according to a growing consensus, just isn't as important as how these programs can help boost productivity, reduce absenteeism and help morale.