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There may still be life in a proposal to repeal Tennessee teachers' collective bargaining rights after its sponsor said Wednesday that a committee will reconvene to hear the bill.

The strength of the national health care labor market showed improvement across a number of major metropolitan areas in the first quarter, as measured by the Health Workforce Solutions Labor Market Pulse Index, a quarterly barometer of local market health care workforce fluctuations.

The House sponsor of a proposal to repeal Tennessee teachers' collective bargaining rights says she's not worried about the legislation passing even though it stalled in the House Finance Committee on Tuesday.

Anybody else find it ironic, karmic, or just plain funny that Massachusetts – the state that drafted the template for the federal health reform law looming over us – has suddenly bucked its “maverick-y” ways and jumped on the organized labor beat-down bandwagon.

Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera said Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has refused to hand over some information about a proposal to hire a private company to run a state worker health insurance program.

Vermont Senate negotiators dropped an amendment to bar illegal immigrants from coverage under a new state health care program, delivering a victory Monday evening to human rights activists who had rallied repeatedly at the Statehouse to demand the change.