Cost-Containment

It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay.

The IRS, in what would be a blow to employers, is proposing companies shouldnt be allowed to count the cost of wellness programs in their health care plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Banks aren't the big jobs machines they used to be.

Even patients with employer-sponsored health insurance are misusing the ER, as only 29 percent of these patients actually required immediate attention.

Hundreds of immigrants in the U.S. illegally have been "medically repatriated" to their homelands through a little-known removal system run by hospitals seeking to curb high costs.

Unemployment rates fell in more than half the U.S. states in March even as job growth slowed. Rates fell largely because many of those out of work stopped looking for jobs and were no longer counted as unemployed.

In a major break with the past, 3 million to 5 million people with drug and alcohol problems from homeless drug addicts to working moms who drink too much will soon become eligible for insurance coverage under the new health care overhaul.

Regal Entertainment Group has unleashed a torrent of criticism from customers on its Facebook page after cutting the hours of thousands of non-salaried employees to avoid Obamacare requirements to extend health insurance to workers who put in more than 30 hours a week.