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  • As Demand Stays High, Officials Try to Fix Glitches in Health Exchanges
  • Federal and state officials moved Wednesday to strengthen the computer underpinnings of the new online health exchanges, which proved inadequate to handle a flood of consumer inquiries that began as soon as the system opened on Tuesday and continued into the next day.




  • California Governor Signs Bills to Aid Obamacare Implementation
  • Among them are measures that extend healthcare tax breaks to same-sex couples, require school districts that offer discounted meals to poor students to notify parents about expanded healthcare options and ensure new state insurance contracts are subject to state open-records laws.

  • Utah Seeks to Raise Smoking Age to 21
  • Utah already has the highest age among the states for allowing tobacco purchases — 19. But two legislators want to raise it a little higher, to age 21, which would match the state’s minimum age for drinking alcohol.

  • Health Exchanges Open in Every State Despite Shutdown
  • Millions of Americans will be able to shop for the first time Tuesday on the insurance marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, entering a world that is supposed to simplify the mysteries of health coverage but could end up making it even more confusing, at least initially.

  • Feds Approve Arkansas' Private Medicaid Expansion Plan
  • Arkansas has received approval from the federal government to proceed with the so-called “private option” for providing health care coverage to the state’s working poor, Gov. Mike Beebe announced Friday.

  • Tuberculosis Outbreaks Spark New Worries
  • Recent TB outbreaks among the poor, homeless and immigrant populations of several U.S. communities have officials worried that the once-tamed disease will become more widespread and harder to contain.

  • Groups Sue to Block Key Parts of Texas Abortion Law
  • More than a dozen women's health care providers in Texas sued the state Friday, attempting to block as unconstitutional key provisions of a strict new abortion law that drew massive protests and threw the Legislature into chaos before it was approved this summer.

  • New Delays for Obamacare's Health Exchanges
  • The U.S. government on Thursday announced new delays in rolling out President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, saying small business and Spanish-language health insurance enrollment services would not begin on October 1 as planned.




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