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In the five years since Massachusetts' landmark health care initiative was signed into law, it has served as a blueprint for national health care, a political football in last year's elections and a talking point in the 2012 presidential contest.

World Health Care Congress speaker Robert Galvin noted incentives are a useful long-term investment to help drive positive health care change in the workplace.

The Economic Policy Institute's recent report says 38 percent of U.S. employees don't get paid sick time.

Last week the Senate approved a bill that would eliminate the controversial 1099 provision from the Affordable Care Act, and just three days later another important piece of the legislation went down with Friday night’s budget agreement. This time the “employee free choice” voucher program emerged in the cross-hairs.

There are a few instances where an HSA account holder might be required to pay a penalty, and they all have to do with contributing more than the allowed amount to the account.

Details of last week's hard-won agreement to avoid a government shutdown and cut federal spending by $38 billion were released Tuesday morning. They reveal the budget cuts, while historic, were significantly eased by pruning money left over from previous years, using accounting sleight of hand.

U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson said formal mediation will begin Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan at his office in the Minneapolis federal courthouse.

Maine lawmakers are taking up proposals aimed at easing a looming debt in Maine's pension system — including a bill to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65 for new hires.