A summary of what a few states around the country are doing to reduce the cost of employee benefits.

Ohio's Capitol building in Columbus will be a place for making laws and making drinks.

A judge has refused to set aside public employee pension contributions in a separate account pending resolution of a lawsuit challenging those payments required by a Florida law that went into effect Friday.

The Federation of American Hospitals cut its first-quarter spending on federal government lobbying 30 percent from the year-earlier quarter, when Congress debated and then passed the health care overhaul.

Medicare officials are confirming that the program will pay for the prostate cancer drug Provenge, an innovative therapy that costs $93,000 and extends life about four months.

Ohio is reporting the nation's largest decline in new applications for unemployment benefits, while the government says the number of claims nationwide is mostly unchanged.

The New Jersey Legislature has passed a resolution aimed at stopping Gov. Chris Christie sweeping changes to the state's Medicaid program.

Managed care company Aetna Inc. spent about $1.1 million in the first quarter lobbying the federal government on the health care overhaul and other topics.