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Republicans and Democrats on a key House panel squared off Wednesday over a controversial GOP budget plan to sharply cut federal health care spending and safety-net programs like food stamps as the chief means to wrestle trillion-dollar-plus deficits under control.

Congress will help pay for your roads, but your state can't lower its drinking age below 21. There's federal money for colleges, but they can't discriminate against women in the classroom or on the athletic field.

Experts at the Department of Health and Human Services and Georgetown University say young adults and children are getting better access to health insurance and preventive care through the Affordable Care Act.

If you work in the employee benefits sector and are feeling nostalgic about your job, I suspect youll be in serious trouble in the not too distant future.

Howard County Public School System introduced Benefitfocus HR InTouch to its 8,200 employees as part of this year's open enrollment.

Republicans are revamping their strategy against President Barack Obama's health care law: If they can't repeal the whole thing, they'll try to pick off pieces. Starting with a new and unfamiliar bureaucracy.

Mixing deep cuts to safety-net programs for the poor with politically risky cost curbs for Medicare, Republicans controlling the House unveiled an election-year budget blueprint Tuesday that paints clear campaign differences with President Barack Obama.

As fate would have it, the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act almost exactly two years after its hurried, confusing passage.