News from state legislatures in Washington state, Oregon, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin.
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A selection of stories from Texas, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, Georgia and Connecticut
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Meanwhile, in Illinois, legislation to establish insurance co-ops moved forward.
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Employers have pretty much been required to provide contraceptive coverage as part of their health plans since December 2000. That's when the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that failure to provide such coverage violates the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act. But controversy over a new rule requiring even religious employers to cover contraception remains.
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Check out what's new on the Kaiser Health News blog.
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Today's selection of health research and analyses is from Health Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and UCLA.
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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations examine the congressional stalemate on the tax package that includes a Medicare pay fix for doctors and the latest developments in the controversy over new regulations that would require religious organizations offering health insurance to workers to include free contraceptives.
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More insurers are shifting a growing amount of the cost of providing care to patients, Kaiser Health News reports. In other insurer news, UnitedHealth will overhaul how it pays doctors, and Washington's state insurance commissioner is asking for permission to consider insurer surpluses when mulling proposed insurance rate increases.
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Georgia and Connecticut mull reforms, while California deals with the reversal of its plan to charge co-payments.
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Although the federal government has encouraged sharing of digital health records, the development of state health information exchanges has been slowed by governance, financing and policy issues, according to a Brookings Institution study.
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