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Nearly 600 retirees of a major New York commuter railroad are losing their disability benefits in the wake of a widespread scandal that has cost hundreds of millions of dollars and seen at least one physician sent to prison, a federal official said Tuesday.

House Republicans followed through Monday on their threat to kill a provision written by the state Senate to require Gov. Tom Corbett to seek federal approval for an expansion of Medicaid eligibility to provide taxpayer-paid health care to hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians.

Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has visited two Detroit-area hospitals to push his message for expanding Medicaid eligibility to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults under the federal health care law.

Traditional health care benefits vs. consumer-directed benefitsthat is the question.

Iowa's leading health insurer will wait a year before participating in the state's new health exchange due to concerns about problems that could arise with its implementation in the early going, company's CEO said Monday.

The ruling was considered a win by gay-rights activists, but some same-sex couples could actually lose out.