The struggle to maintain affordable health care coverage may end a Maryland family’s 14-year “good run” of operating their own businesses.

Citing billions of dollars in costs from fraud against private and public health plans, a Delaware senator is seeking to strengthen the government’s role in investigating and prosecuting individuals abusing the system.

Women are discriminated against under the current health care system, said Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), and therefore have a particularly high stake in reform.

A Pennsylvania congresswoman is among several sponsors of a bill to include long-term care insurance in employer-sponsored cafeteria plans and flexible spending accounts that has been introduced in Congress.

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