Broker Regulation

The three federal agencies in charge of implementing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 want to know how small employers' use of stop-loss programs, or insurance for self-insured health plans, affects the market for fully insured small group coverage.

Republicans ignored a veto threat and overcame a rebellion by party conservatives to push a bill through the House Friday keeping interest rates on millions of federal student loans from doubling this summer.

The Supreme Court, suddenly at the heart of presidential politics, is preparing what could be blockbuster rulings on health care and immigration shortly before the fall election.

A government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe of the National Labor Relations Board after finding that more inside information was leaked to a former adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday.

New York City is teetering on the verge of interfering with the free market and alienating employers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned Wednesday as he railed against legislation being pushed by the City Council that would boost wages offered by some companies that receive city benefits.

According to a new report from The Kaiser Family Foundation, preliminary estimates project that insurers will have to return $1.3 billion to customers this year, including $426 million in the individual market, $377 million in the small group market, and $541 million in the large group market.