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With two weeks until the deadline, the White House is joining forces with advocacy groups to boost enrollment of Asian-Americans. In California, Anthem leads in sign-ups, but Kaiser Permanente is gaining, while in Colorado, a glitch cancels 3,615 insurance plans that should have been renewed. And in Florida, some prefer using free clinics to getting coverage -- even when they qualify for big subsidies.
In other Capitol Hill action, two Republican senators set out goals for overhauling federal policies regarding the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.
President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress for $215 million for what is being called a "precision medicine initiative," including plans to collect genetic data, so that scientists can learn how to target treatments.
The congressionally mandated commission recommended doing away with the centerpiece of the military health system and instead giving military families and retirees a choice of private-sector plans.
This signal from congressional Republicans ups the ante regarding the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act that will be argued at the Supreme Court in March. Meanwhile, some GOP House members are also starting to work on a bill to replace the ACA.
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In a rare, bipartisan moment on the Affordable Care Act, the Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved the measure to exclude veterans from the 50-worker threshold. Nonetheless, The New York Times anticipates many coming clashes, saying the divide between the two parties over fiscal policy may be as stark as at any time since the government shutdowns of 1995 and 1996.
The giant insurer reports that it exceeded enrollment expectations for 2014, mostly as a result of government programs, including the health law's expansion of Medicaid in more than two dozen states.
Nearly 400 groups, including a coalition of drugmakers and insurers, sent an open letter to House lawmakers warning against forcing drugmakers to give Medicare rebates to low-income beneficiaries. The letter comes shortly before the Obama administration will release its annual budget proposal.
Missouri and Connecticut are among the states securing discounts on expensive new drugs in exchange for making them the preferred option for their Medicaid enrollees. Meanwhile, insurance giant UnitedHealth picks Gilead's Harvoni as the preferred hepatitis C treatment for all its customers.
The Republican governor and lawmakers in the GOP-controlled legislature are expected to seek a deal with the federal government that would allow an estimated 17,600 low-income residents to gain coverage. Meanwhile, advocates worry that nearly half the children in California are covered by the state's Medicaid program, which is falling short in several key areas.
Elsewhere, a closer look at the health law battle at the Supreme Court, California's Obamacare insurance rate tops 90 percent and updates on exchanges in Maryland, Minnesota and Colorado.
The Obama administration estimates that about 29 percent of taxpayers will have to take the health law into account as they file their 2014 taxes. Between 3 million and 6 million households may incur penalties because they didn't get health insurance last year, but as many as one in five may claim an individual mandate exemption.
An analysis by Harvard researchers found that some plans offered through the health insurance marketplaces may be pricing HIV drugs out of reach in an effort to get around the health laws's mandate against discrimination based on pre-existing conditions.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care issues from around the country.
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