Health Care Reform

A round-up of the weeks employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web

Health reform will cost less than was predicted last year but will cover fewer people, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.

It might be dismissed as an election year gimmick by the big shots who run Capitol Hill, but frustration over Congress' failure to pass a budget since 2009 has given surprising momentum to a bill that would cut off lawmakers' pay if they can't or won't pass a...

More people looking to buy health insurance say they would shop for coverage through a health insurance exchange if they had the opportunity, according to a J.D. Power and Associates health plan study released Tuesday.

Nearly two years after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, the department of Health and Human Services this week finally issued its guidelines regarding the now-infamous state exchanges.

Do it your way, but get it done. That's what the Obama administration is telling the states when it comes to carrying out the new health overhaul law that will eventually cover most of America's 50 million uninsured people.

Compliance with health care reform is already driving up costs for some employers group health plans, and a majority of employers expect price increases to be passed on to employees, according to a Willis Group Holdings survey.

It took only a year to set up Medicare. But if President Barack Obama's health care law survives Supreme Court scrutiny, it will be nearly a decade before all its major pieces are in place. And that means even if Obama is re-elected, he won't be in office to oversee...