Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pressing to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless through December as he and Republicans try to clear leftover Senate business. Reid also hopes to keep helping cash-strapped states with their Medicaid budgets, he said Tuesday on the Senate floor. Taken ...

Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle allegations that it claimed its heart drug was eligible for Medicaid reimbursement. The U.S. attorney's office in Boston said Monday that Eon Labs Inc., a subsidiary of Swiss company ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The so-called "Cornhusker Kickback" that gave Nebraska a special deal in the Senate's healthcare legislation, and which 15 states had threatened to sue over, has been dropped from a fresh reform proposal President Barack Obama released on Monday. The caveat in the stalled Senate bill would have had the government pick up a greater share of Nebraska ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State governors want Congress and President Barack Obama to pay more attention to their concerns as they renew efforts to reform healthcare. The governors, who have been meeting in the U.S. capital this weekend, will make their case to Obama on Monday that some reform proposals could deepen the budget woes that many states face. On the ...