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The Obama administration is buying into an ambitious health care initiative in Oregon, announcing Thursday it has tentatively agreed to chip in $1.9 billion over five years to help get the program off the ground.

Federal authorities charged 107 doctors, nurses and social workers in seven cities with Medicare fraud Wednesday in a nationwide crackdown on unrelated scams that allegedly billed the taxpayer-funded program of $452 million the highest dollar amount in a single Medicare bust in U.S. history.

The Republican majority on the House Ways and Means Committee says the "Democrats' health care law," otherwise known as health care reform, contains policies that create "perverse financial incentives" for employers to stop offering health insurance to their employees.

Illinois health care centers are receiving nearly $9.5 million in grants made possible by the national health care overhaul.

Judge Susan Richard Nelson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota is requiring that Hawkins Tree and Landscaping Inc., a Shakopee, Minn., company, and its owners, Michael Hawkins and Dawn Hawkins, pay back wages as well as liquidated damages totaling to $478,000 to 57 current and former...

The California state legislature is moving forward on a collection of health insurance reform bills, some specially tailored to conform to sections of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).