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States that expand their Medicaid programs under President Barack Obama's health care law may end up saving thousands of lives, a medical journal report released Wednesday indicates.

The government is stepping up efforts to tackle health care fraud by scrutinizing claims data from insurers and federal programs in hopes of weeding out bogus billing.

Fewer new prescription drugs will get approved in the U.S. this year than the 30 approved in 2011, a new report predicts.

Senate leaders moved toward a showdown Wednesday with votes on rival Democratic and Republican plans for extending broad tax cuts that will otherwise expire in January.

North Dakota lawmakers and Gov. Jack Dalrymple should continue their opposition to establishing a state-run, online marketplace for insurance that's required by the new federal health care law, representatives of a group of conservative organizations said Monday.

President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will reduce rather than increase the nation's huge federal deficits over the next decade, Congress' nonpartisan budget scorekeepers said Tuesday, supporting Obama's contention in a major election-year dispute with Republicans.