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• Suburban Poverty on the Rise
• Aug. 12, 2013
• Metropolitan suburbs have seen the largest and fastest-growing poverty rates in America over the past decade, according to a study released this week by the Brookings Institution.

• States Scramble to Cash In on ACA's Medicaid Medication Savings
• Aug. 12, 2013
• A little-known provision of the 2010 health care law has states and their governors scrambling to take advantage of potential savings in how states distribute medication to Medicaid patients.

• Sebelius: Feds Open to "Uniquely Texan" Medicaid Expansion
• Aug. 9, 2013
• “We are eager to have discussions with Texas about a program that could look uniquely Texan,” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. “But as far as I know, those conversations, at least with the state officials, are not taking place right now.”

• New York Lags on Firing Workers Who Abuse Disabled Patients
• Aug. 9, 2013
• Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo promised to change a system in which employees who mistreated disabled and mentally ill patients rarely lost their jobs, but two years later, little has changed.

• California Reveals List of Health Exchange Insurers
• Aug. 8, 2013
• Californians shopping for health insurance through the state's new marketplace will have a dozen options to choose from, officials announced Wednesday.

• Debate over Medical Marijuana DUIs Heads to Arizona Court
• Aug. 8, 2013
• The legal battle over the rights of medical-marijuana cardholders to drive while medicating is being fought in the state’s court system.

• Childhood Obesity Rates Falling for 1st Time in Decades
• Aug. 7, 2013
• Small but significant declines in obesity among low-income preschoolers were found in 18 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2008 to 2011, CDC director Thomas Frieden said at a press telebriefing. "This is the first report to show many states with declining rates of obesity in our youngest children after literally decades of rising rates."

• Texas Joins 5 Other States That Won't Enforce Obamacare
• Aug. 7, 2013
• Though Texas will join 26 other states in defaulting to a federal marketplace for purchasing health insurance — a major component of the Affordable Care Act — it is one of only six that will not enforce new health insurance reforms prescribed by the law.

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• Harnessing Flexibility in the Delivery of Human Services
• Aug. 7, 2013
• Despite an accompanying funding cut, a block-granting experiment in Pennsylvania is showing promise for improving the way vulnerable populations are helped.

• GOP Governors Warn Congressional Republicans Not to Shut Government over Obamacare
• Aug. 5, 2013
• Worried about the potential impact on the fragile economies in their states, Republican governors this weekend warned their counterparts in Congress not to shut down the federal government as part of an effort to block financing for President Obama’s health care law.

• New Jersey's Medical Marijuana Program is Nation's Most Expensive
• Aug. 5, 2013
• From registration fees and required multiple doctor visits that insurance won’t cover, to sales tax and the price of pot, New Jersey’s costs are generally higher than the 10 other states and Washington, D.C., that permit medical marijuana retail sales, according to a Star-Ledger analysis.

• Illinois to Become 20th State to Legalize Medical Marijuana
• Aug. 1, 2013
• Gov. Pat Quinn will sign a bill into law Thursday legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes in Illinois in a ceremony at the University of Chicago.

• Schools Absent from Major Obamacare Outreach
• Aug. 1, 2013
• Supporters of the health law see back-to-school season as a natural time for Obamacare outreach, a chance to find young families who could benefit from new health coverage options. But weeks before the school bells start ringing in parts of the country, there’s no concerted effort to reach parents at the schoolhouse door.

• Report: Indiana Has Most to Gain if it Expanded Medicaid
• Aug. 1, 2013
• Indiana would see one of the biggest reductions among states in its uninsured population if it expands Medicaid under a full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to a report released Wednesday.

• Judge Extends Delay on Wisconsin's New Abortion Law
• Aug. 1, 2013
• A federal judge Wednesday extended for another week a hold on a state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges.