Health

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Health

• States with Republican governors kept up the
  pressure last week on Washington to give the
  states greater control over health care under the
  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  (PPACA). Twenty-one Republican governors sent a
  letter to Health and Human Services (HHS)
  Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking for greater
  authority over some provisions of health reform,
  including the ability to define "essential"
  health benefits and set minimum criteria for
  participating in insurance exchanges. They
  threatened not to run their own state-based
  exchanges if HHS does not act on their requests.
  Sebelius quickly responded with her own letter in
  which she reviewed the various options states
  have to reduce costs in their Medicaid programs,
  and she indicated.
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