From the FINANCIAL TIMES:
The federal government will step in to ensure that the Obama administration’s healthcare reforms are implemented in every state, Kathlelen Sebelius, the health secretary, said, amid growing resistance to the changes in some parts of the US and an inability to act in others.
“The way the bill is written, it really is a state-based programme with the federal government providing the back-up,” she said…
The first results of the reform package, passed in March after a long and bitter legislative fight, are beginning to kick in. High-risk insurance pools have been created in many states, allowing people with pre-existing conditions such as cancer or HIV to be covered, and pensioners who have overpaid for prescription medicines are now receiving $250 rebate cheques…
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