LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: …Both sides agree that hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians — 305,000 by 2016, according to the council’s report — would be covered by an expanded Medicaid program. As it stands, nearly all of those people are uninsured, because they do not qualify for the existing Medicaid program under Pennsylvania’s rules, nor do they qualify for health-insurance subsidies under the federal law.

“There have been billions spent on these systems and incentives paid to providers, but there is no private or government agency that provides oversight,” said Dan Bowerman, a Philadelphia chiropractor who has assisted in many state and federal fraud investigations…

AOL: Israel arrested six Jewish suspects Sunday in the grisly slaying of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned to death last week, marking a breakthrough in a case that has touched off violent protests in Arab sections of Jerusalem and northern Israel.

A 2002 study conducted by researchers at the University of New Mexico and published in the journal Addiction showed that motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy and naltrexone, which are often used together, are far more effective in stopping or reducing drug and alcohol use than the faith-and-abstinence-based model of A.A.

The state would be in line to receive $5.8 billion in 2015 and 2016 if it chooses to take federal money to enlarge eligibility of the health insurance program for the poor, according to President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.

USA TODAY Column: …To be sure, Tim Howard was spectacular. People who say they don’t care about soccer cared passionately about this. In a country driven by winning, Americans by the millions realized that there can be both joy and dignity in missing the quarterfinals.

But what was sometimes labeled cowardice or treason in the rank and file was often nothing of the sort, members of the border forces said in interviews in recent days.