Members of the Senate have started the process of considering H.R. 436, the Health Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012 bill.

Fighting for re-election, President Barack Obama is playing down his historic health care overhaul and the multibillion-dollar recession-fighting stimulus two landmark efforts of his first three years in office. Those signature policies are unpopular, and voters clearly want the candidates to focus instead on jobs.

Workers are slowly closing the gap between what they are saving and what they need to save for retirement.

Health care spending will grow faster than the economy for the foreseeable future, says a report Tuesday from Medicare's nonpartisan economic analysts.