Core and Group Health

seven in 10 plan sponsors say controlling health care costs is "highly important" to them.

Small victories, especially when they're all you've got, have to be savored. You've got to get a few first downs before you make it to the goal line. And though it might take a little longer, a few back-to-back singles are just as good as a home run.

Don't expect much in the way of change. At least not yet.

Employee Benefit Research Institute estimates of the Current Population Survey, March 2009-2010 Supplements.

At what point does all this support or attack on health care reform devolve into hyperbole? Do we blame Obama for everything that goes wrong with health care now? Whether he's responsible or not? And for all that it gets right, whom do we praise?

In a recent survey, employers say they are not likely to drop health care once state-run insurance exchanges take effect in 2014, finds consulting firm Mercer.

According to a new report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, 3 million Californians are enrolled in high-deductible health plans.

while some states are still sorting through ballots (handwritten or otherwise), I can't help but wonder whether all this reading of tea leaves is worth the breath we waste on it.