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The Texas Senate unanimously approved two major bills that would reform how doctors and hospitals are paid or operate.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has proposed a phased-in plan over three years that would require employees to pay about a third of health care costs by mid-2014.

A North Dakota state lawmaker is suggesting that teacher contract bargaining rights be abolished, but the idea isn't likely to go anywhere.

The Supreme Court has taken no action on Virginia's call for speedy review of the health care law.

In a prelude to a summer showdown with President Barack Obama, Republicans controlling the House pushed to passage on Friday a bold but politically dangerous budget blueprint to slash social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid and fundamentally restructure Medicare health care for the elderly.

President Barack Obama signed a six-month spending bill Friday that cuts more than $38 billion from the budget.

Iowa Medicaid will pay back $70,000 to the federal government after an audit found claims were paid for drugs and services prescribed by doctors who should have been disqualified because of criminal convictions and other professional infractions.

Protesters have disrupted the final moments of the House debate on next year's budget, singing patriotic and other songs before they were removed from the visitors' gallery overlooking the House floor.