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Aetna will no longer sell new small-group health insurance in Colorado and existing small-group clients will be moved off the plan in the next year, sending ripples through 1,200 companies and 5,200 employees and their dependents.

You remember what the president said, don't you? "You like your plan? You can keep it. No one is going to take that away from you."

Forty-three percent of employees think health benefits are more important than higher wages, according to the recent "Getting Paid In America" survey conducted by the American Payroll Association.

As early as Tuesday, Sept. 28, employers using limited medical plans are facing many changes when grandfathered group health insurance plans begin to renew, states Fringe Benefit Group, Austin, Texas.

Health care costs for employers in 2011 will be at their highest in five years, according to new analysis from Hewitt Associates.

The next round of provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act goes into effect Thursday, Sept. 23.

As if the end of summer weren't bad enough, we have the U.S. Census Bureau sending us off into the cool, dark days of autumn with a double dose of bad news.

Despite health reform, fewer Americans are confident employer-based health coverage will be available for them in the future.