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Idaho received a $20.4 million federal grant for an insurance exchange required by the federal health care overhaul, setting up a fight in the upcoming 2012 Legislature over whether the state should keep the money.

Nebraska should not wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the Obama administration's health care overhaul before it prepares a state-based insurance exchange, a leading hospital advocate said Wednesday.

President Barack Obama's Medicare nominee Tuesday got unexpected support from one of Congress' Republican stars. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told The Associated Press that Marilyn Tavenner is "eminently qualified" to run Medicare.

Even with more children living in poverty because of the rough economy, the number of children without health insurance in the U.S. has dropped by 1 million in the past three years, according to a report released Tuesday by Georgetown University.

The California Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) is growing rapidly, but the number of enrollees is still much lower than expected, and the average amount of claims per enrollee is much higher than expected.

Sometimes I wish Id had a nanny state growing up, maybe I wouldve had more than cereal for dinner during those first couple of years.