Opinion by Robert J. Samuelson

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Texas House Democrats sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging her to reject the state's request that insurers be allowed to spend a larger portion of premiums on profits and overhead.

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Opinion by Andrew Sperling

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More than 2,400 physicians, health policy experts and executives signed a letter sent to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Thursday urging the federal government to reject recommendations by the Institute of Medicine on how to define "essential benefits" in state health insurance exchanges under the federal health reform law.

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Insurance plans will soon have to give consumers more information about how their premium dollars are spent, even if the spending meets new federal requirements. Read the Article>

A group of Medicare patients and their families sued the Obama administration on Thursday, saying they were deprived of coverage by the government health plan because of a policy that allows hospitals to avoid admitting elderly people with chronic ailments as inpatients. Read the Article>

The nation's governors sent the Obama Administration recommendations Thursday morning regarding the implementation of health care exchanges as a federal-state partnership.

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