Cost-Containment

Walgreen Co. is joining a growing push from big businesses to shift more responsibility for finding insurance onto their employees as health care costs continue to climb.

Even though many small businesses arent under any obligation to provide health care coverage to employees, nearly two-thirds may do just that within the next three years.

This is a critical time for HHS. With just days left before the exchanges open for enrollment on Oct. 1, we shouldnt be surprised to see HHS highlight what sound like positive results.

The gap in employment rates between America's highest- and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago.

The Air Force announced this week just as flu season approaches that it made the decision in January not to offer flu shots this year to its civilian workers.

TJ CEO Dan Bane informed those working fewer than 30 hours who had health coverage through the company that those days would soon be over.