A benefits group wants federal agencies to require the new health plan summary descriptions to go to a tightly focused group of people.

The government should revise regulations that are supposed to help employers that like their plans keep their plans, according to Rep. Phil Roe.

Including Social Security benefits when deciding whether families qualify for health insurance purchase subsidies could save the government about $13 billion from 2014 through 2021, budget analysts say.

Consumers and benefits advisors who look carefully may be able to find surprising Medicare supplement insurance bargains, a rating agency says.

Steve Auerbach, the head of a company that supplies the innards of many large health insurance exchanges, says he is hungry for good agents.

The Self-Insurance Insurance Institute of America Inc. (SIIA) is blasting allegations by federal regulators and others who contend that employer flight to the self-insured market could leave insured plans stuck with the sickest employees.

Staffing industry representatives are asking Congress to exempt temporary workers from employer health insurance requirements set to take effect in 2014 or at least lighten the load.

Analysts at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, Calif., have described the stage of exchange development in each state in a new collection of state exchange program profiles.