States slow to transition
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As many state legislatures have finished their work for the year, fewer than one-fourth have taken concrete steps to create health insurance marketplaces.
Partisan fights stall primary health care panel
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A commission to help match the supply of health care workers with the need cannot convene, converse or hire staff because $3 million that it needs for its initial year has been blocked.
Administration courts new Medicare providers
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The White House is trying to hasten the spread of new arrangements to coordinate and pay for the health care of older Americans.
States grapple with insurance exchanges
Health-care reform may have cost the Democrats control of the House in the midterm elections last year, but it is the Republicans in statehouses around the country who are feeling the heat now.
Health-care law tools
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What it means for you
This tool estimates what the health-care law could mean for your health coverage and taxes based on your income, family size and current insurance status.
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Legal challenges
Follow the legal challenges mounted across the country against the health-care law.
Latest health-care news
- Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska won’t seek reelection
- A ghostwriter behind Va. legislation?
- State efforts put more children on health insurance rolls, despite economic downturn
- Veterans Affairs claims progress in ending homelessness among vets
- On health care, GOP’s words speak louder than actions
- The “replace” sham, one year out
- City budgets catch up to hard reality
- Herman Cain’s crack-up
- The politics of ‘repeal and replace’
- Good and bad news for Medicare
Alone in New Hampshire, Jon Huntsman waits for Republican presidential contest to come to him http://t.co/kFH6gSDC
Gingrich renews criticism of Ron Paul, calls him ‘a protest candidate’ http://t.co/XsZQFQvT #iacaucus
Perry ad hits Santorum for ‘feeding at the earmark trough in Congress’ http://t.co/AyPcylHx
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