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  Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers

  By Christina Silva  |  May 24, 2013

  Arizona's bitter debate over a signature part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has sparked an investigation into lawmakers' safety.

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  18 states to drop PCIP programs

  By Ann Sanner  |  May 22, 2013

  Eighteen states have decided to turn their state Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan programs over to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

• Feds to run high-risk plan in Ohio

  By Ann Sanner  |  May 22, 2013

  Federal and Ohio officials couldn't agree on spending for a state-run stopgap health insurance plan that covers Ohioans who can't get coverage elsewhere, so the U.S. government will take it over, state officials said Tuesday.

• New Mexico changing its plans for health exchange

  By Barry Massey  |  May 21, 2013

  New Mexico is switching gears on its plan for a health insurance exchange and initially will partner with the federal government for computer services needed for an online insurance marketplace.

• Is Medicare Advantage in danger?

  By Pam Black  |  May 21, 2013

  At the end of February, the federal government was set to cut payments to Medicare by 2.2 percent. Suddenly, on April 1, the whole situation was reversed: Not only were funds for Medicare not cut, they were increased by 3.3 percent. To Washington outsiders, it sounds like an April Fool’s...

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  Working Families Flexibility Act is a win-win

  By Allen Greenberg  |  May 21, 2013

  The House passed legislation this month amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 by giving all private-sector employees the same flexibility government employees have enjoyed for the past three decades.

• CBO reduces 'Cadillac' tax, employer penalty estimates

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  May 20, 2013

  “Cadillac tax” collections, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will be far less than originally forecast.

• Problems surface over Arizona’s 2007 immigration law

  By Jacques Billeaud  |  May 17, 2013

  The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

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  Tea party tax returns show activism on a budget

  By Stephen Braun  |  May 17, 2013

  Dozens of tea party groups and other conservative organizations of the kind subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operated with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities, according to an Associated Press review of public tax filings by 93 such activist groups. A few groups built...

• IRS chief’s ouster isn’t ending investigations

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 16, 2013

  Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner.