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Forty-five states and the District of Columbia will each receive $1 million to help improve health premium oversight, the Department of Health and Human Services announced this week.

Almost all (90 percent) of U.S. companies surveyed recently by Hewitt Associates say they anticipate losing their grandfathered health plan status by 2014, with the majority expecting to do so within the next two years.

Is the demise of group insurance imminent? Without significant changes in the health reform bill the evidence points to yes. But is that a bad thing?

estimates of the legislation understate the size of the population that might enroll in their parents' employment-based coverage, and the costs of the mandate are expected to increase health insurance premiums 1 percent by 2013.

Last year, roughly 2.4 million more adults were obese than in 2007.

HR managers were asked: What do you expect to be your biggest challenge in the next six months?

By approving Proposition C, my home state voters have signed off on a state law in direct opposition to federal law.

Health care costs - 82 percent of respondents indicate that their health care costs are significantly or moderately impacted by worker stress;