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The White House is promising to veto, if necessary, a Republican effort to wreck President Barack Obama's health care law as part of House legislation to prevent a partial government shutdown.

Top aides to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett plan to meet Monday with officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the first such meeting since he released his plan to use federal Medicaid expansion dollars to extend health insurance to hundreds of thousands of the working poor.

House Speaker John Boehner says House Republicans will pass a budget bill this week that withholds funding for President Barack Obama's health care law.

But consultants find many hospitals are suffering from "reform fatigue."

The Obama administration is planning a high-level effort to reassure Americans about the privacy and security of the information submitted under the new health care law, hoping to blunt complaints from Republican opponents that enough isn't being done to protect consumer data.

Maine Democrats on Tuesday relaunched their campaign to expand health care coverage to about 70,000 low-income residents under the federal health care overhaul, vowing to reintroduce a Medicaid expansion bill when they return in January.