Benefits for 1.3 million long-term unemployed people expire just three days after Christmas. Lawmakers say another 1.9 million people would miss out on the benefits in the first six months of next year.

For many couples, first comes love, then comes marriage. But somewhere in the middle of that should come insurance, experts say.

Gallup finds awareness of the new PPACA insurance requirement peaked in late October.

Fewer jobs, risky financial deals and declining revenues are true causes of the Motor City's fiscal woes, the report says.