State regulators are proposing that colleges start tracking problems students encounter with their health insurance coverage, including how many times insurers refuse to pay for care, and also report the amount of profit the companies make on student plans.

The plan seems certain to include a procedural maneuver meant to avoid filibusters on health care reform, and likely to anger Republicans.

Democrats are preparing to use controversial tactics to ram President Obama's health care legislation through Congress this year. The move will inflame partisan tensions, but Republicans may be powerless to do anything to stop it.

FRIDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- Those serving in the armed forces tend to be in better health than the general population, but for veterans who experienced combat duty, that initial health advantage is erased.

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats reached a tentative agreement to use a parliamentary procedure that would prevent Senate Republicans from blocking President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care system, congressional aides said.