After months of arguing, New Hampshire lawmakers overseeing implementation of the federal health care overhaul law agreed on one thing Tuesday: They're at a stalemate.

New Hampshire's House took two steps Wednesday toward implementing President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, voting to accept a $5.3 million grant to help consumers understand the law and attempting to salvage a bill that would align state insurance rules with the federal changes.

As New Hampshire prepares to implement the federal health care overhaul law, it could learn some lessons from its experience with providing subsidized health insurance to children over the years, a policy expert told lawmakers Tuesday.

New Hampshires insurance and health departments are recommending that the state partner with the federal government to operate the new insurance markets required under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.

A new report says the number of uninsured residents in New Hampshire would drop to about 71,000 by 2020 if the state expands its Medicaid program for the poor and disabled under the federal health overhaul law.

The federal government has begun soliciting bids for the construction of a Jobs Corps Center in Manchester, N.H., three years after the project was stalled by contract language that would have required the facility to be built by union labor.

The University of New Hampshire opened a new health clinic Monday aimed at saving money and providing faculty and staff with more convenient options for their medical needs.

Members of a labor union representing most of New Hampshire's 11,000 state workers are being urged by their leaders to ratify a contract agreement reached with the governor's office last month.