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Orszag on health care reform

Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag delivers the Obama administration's health-care reform sales pitch in a Washington Post op-ed today by focusing on the economic impact of the efforts. "If we do nothing to slow the skyrocketing cost...

Swine flu follies at Social Security Administration

Updated 5:06 p.m. ET The union representing thousands of Social Security Administration employees has reacted angrily to an official's recent assertion that H1N1 flu is not a serious communicable disease. Celine Wilson, SSA's chief negotiator with the National Council of...

Congressional Health Benefits Could Soon Change

Senators debating health-care reform legislation have unanimously approved a proposal requiring members of Congress and their staffs to obtain health insurance through new state-based purchasing exchanges set up by the health-care reform bill under consideration. Lawmakers and their staffs could...

Federal Employee Health Care Costs to Jump 8.8%

Updated 7:17 p.m. ET Federal government employees enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program will pay an average 8.8 percent more in health-care costs in 2010, according to figures released Tuesday by the Office of Personnel Management. The increase...

Federal Eye Archive: Health Care

Orszag on health care reform

Swine flu follies at Social Security Administration

Congressional Health Benefits Could Soon Change

Federal Employee Health Care Costs to Jump 8.8%