The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will stop accepting applications for its Early Retiree Reinsurance Program after May 5, 2011, due to lack of funding.
An Affordable Care Act provision mandating health insurance exchanges to be formed by each state by 2014 is creating a great deal of controversy and negativity among some states.
A two-decade Swedish study on prostate cancer screening deepens the controversy about whether screening actually has an impact on the death rate from this disease.
An expert believes the current, and somewhat outdated, model of insurance offered by employers today will need to change in light of increasing job mobility of Gen X and Gen Y employees.
Proposals to close California's growing deficit includes a 30 percent hike on employee contributions to health care and public employee pension reform.
Many large municipal bond mutual funds and closed-end funds have lost 10 percent or more of their NAV since November, and some clients may be wondering if they should lighten up or leave munis.
Nearly 3,000 union mine workers rallied in southwestern Pennsylvania, the first major gathering of union members outside the states where lawmakers are already battling over collective bargaining rights.