Major employers, including McDonald’s, Home Depot and Blockbuster, offer mini-medical plans, but under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, these plans are nearing the last of their days.

A budding model for primary care that encourages the family doctor to act as a health coach who focuses as much on preventing illness as on treating it has shown promising results and saved insurers millions of dollars.

Investment counselors have sounded the clarion call throughout years and decades past: When thinking about retirement – when simply saving and investing their well-earned money – people should strive to diversify.

Participants in same-sex marriages say they are still discriminated against because they can't get the same federal benefits that heterosexual couples receive.