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An auto parts employee laid off from his job last year has been able to hang onto his health insurance because the federal government has picked up most of the tab.

More than $51 million is on its way to a group of AK Steel retirees after the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the company's calculation method violated federal pension laws.

WASHINGTON Warren and Wendy Brown say their daughter Alexa and the lingering questions about childhood cancer motivated their trip to Washington, D.C. Alexa died in August.

The so-called "public option" is one of the most contentious elements of health care reform, which has sparked protests and rallies across the country.

The Senate is set to begin debate Monday on its version of a sweeping legislation to remake the U.S. health care system, a showdown likely to last for weeks.

Just before Don Hall and his family left town for Thanksgiving, the laid-off manufacturing supervisor from Castalia, Ohio, wrote a $763.81 check to his health insurance company for his December payment.

Despite carving out a niche for himself as a leading progressive voice in Congress, Senator Sherrod Brown rarely goes in for headline-grabbing proclamations or sharp political rhetoric.

Bob Casey said Tuesday. With unemployment "incredibly high," Casey said the bill would extend the program through June 30.

Delphi Corp. salaried retirees will get another chance to make their case for pension and health care support from the government at a House of Representatives hearing Wednesday.

Senate Democrats on Sunday sparred with each other over how to fix the nation's troubled health care system, with moderates threatening to scuttle legislation if their demands weren't met and the more liberal members warning their party leaders not to bend.

About 110,000 central Ohio customers of American Electric Power soon will have advanced-technology meters, giving them the ability to track when they use the most power and thus reduce their electricity bills.

It has been said that politics is the art of compromise. Not in the mind of Sen.

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Buoyed by their weekend victory on a vote beginning the health care debate, several Senate Democrats expressed optimism yesterday they could find a way to keep a government-run insurance plan in the sweeping bill.

With so many players divided on key issues, there's no guarantee that Reid can pass a bill at all.

A Democratic senator says moderates in his party shouldn't be allowed to dictate the terms of the health care debate and that the final bill should include a government-run option for Americans lacking insurance.

The H1N1 flu virus appears to be slowing its spread across the country, although top officials warn another "wave" could follow.

Cristal A. Thomas has been named a U.S. Health and Human Services regional director.

WASHINGTON -- Ohio residents deemed most at risk for the H1N1 virus should have been vaccinated by now, and vaccination efforts now are focusing on a larger at-risk population, the state health director said.

President Obama and Lee Myung-bak, the president of South Korea, arriving at a news conference in Seoul on Thursday.