Workers are picking up a bigger share of health insurance costs and face more restrictions on coverage this year, a survey of large companies reveals.

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Opinion by Mary Jo Braid-Forbes

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The slowing rate of growth in healthcare costs is giving conservatives new ammunition to push for free-market solutions to the nation's healthcare problems. Read the Article>

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In effort to break through the polarizing politics of this Act, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University conducted a year long study called "Beware the Rush to Presumption." It analyzes the government's own analysis of the program's cost savings and benefits. Read the Article>

Healthcare costs in the United States are the highest in the world, and those in Massachusetts are the highest in the United States - as they had been for decades before the new law was passed. Read the Article>

The Health and Human Services Department launched a new initiative Monday in its push to cut healthcare costs. Read the Article>

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Tuesday that he’s the best-prepared presidential candidate to tackle rising health costs — but he admitted he didn’t finish the job in his home-state plan. Read the Article>

Los Angeles County is launching one of the country's largest expansions of health care services in preparation for implementation of the federal health reform law, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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Senate Democratic leaders are attempting a balancing act on Medicare — by showing openness to containing the program's ballooning costs but still drawing the line at cutting benefits. Read the Article>