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The law is slated to expire in October 2016. Also on Capitol Hill, the Senate Finance Committee chairman suggests that Congress might repeal the health law's device tax through a special budgetary rule, and Democrats are calling for investigations of the antiabortion activists who released secretly recorded videos about Planned Parenthood.
In June, justices granted an emergency appeal to put a temporary hold on Texas' new clinic regulations that would leave the state with only 10 abortion providers. If the court hears the case, it would result in the first major abortion ruling since 2007.
In other news on state insurance plans, the California Association of Health Plans opposes legislation that would tax health plan participants while California Healthline reports on the success of the state's takeover of a local health plan.
The new guarantees are part of a wide-ranging proposed rule that would bar discrimination based on gender in insurance coverage, treatments and access.
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Health care stories are reported from California, Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Minnesota, California and Nebraska.
Meanwhile, in Ohio, the abortion rate dropped more than 8 percent between 2013 and 2014.
Elsewhere, Illinois legislators override the governor's veto to allow Medicaid to pay for heroin addiction treatment, and the California right-to-die bill passed an early test vote Tuesday during a special legislative session.
Meanwhile, bills have been advanced in the Wisconsin legislature that also target the reproductive health organization.
Ohio has the third-highest number of enrollees in high-deductible plans, trade group America's Health Insurance Plans says. In Louisiana, the insurance department takes over Louisiana Health Cooperative after it's revealed that the insurer has only $180,000 to pay off unexpectedly high claims, if they come.
More than 53,000 state residents have lost their coverage because they failed to provide proof of their incomes within a 10-day deadline. In other news, Pennsylvania officials finish up an overhaul of the state's Medicaid system, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer profiles the difficulties of a woman who finds a part-time job and then loses her Medicaid benefits and can't afford private insurance.
Access issues are particularly acute in rural areas and in states like Texas.
Kaiser Permanente says not one of the 657 patients on a drug regimen meant to stop new cases of the disease contracted the virus. In the meantime, a study says needle exchanges in Washington, D.C., prevented 120 new cases of HIV.
Funding for addiction treatment, prevention programs and criminal justice reforms are part of her proposal. "Plain and simple, drug and alcohol addiction is a disease, not a moral failing," the Democratic candidate wrote in an op-ed.
With the Department of Veterans Affairs' open applications going back nearly 20 years, and with many records undated, the report estimates that a third of those who applied for health care are now dead. Meanwhile, in another hit to veterans seeking care, a torrential storm damaged the Phoenix VA hospital, forcing patients to be moved and appointments postponed.
The message came in a letter from budget director Shaun Donovan. Meanwhile, in North Carolina, a whistleblower is alleging that a major health system fraudulently billed the government.
The committee that brought a lawsuit against Gov. Bill Walker met but announced no changes in strategy. Alaska officials say they have approved 27 people for Medicaid since enrollment in the expansion program began Tuesday and more than 350 people have applied already.
Elsewhere, new smartphone apps let you book doctor house calls, and a closer look at the construction boom of cancer treatment centers.
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