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GOP leaders eager to avoid blame for a possible government shutdown next month appear confounded by conservatives' passion for using fast-approaching deadlines to derail the implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law.

Its about as miserable as an episode of The Killing here in Colorado. The rain hasnt stopped all week.

The House passed a bill Thursday to ban new subsidies to help people buy health insurance until the Obama administration enacts a new verification system to ensure benefits go only to those who are eligible.

The number of small-group lives affected increased 64 percent.

Counselors trained to help sign people up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act won't be allowed to conduct their work at county health departments across the state.

The state Assembly has approved a bill that would expand the services California pharmacists can provide to patients.