new health care

The state is shaping up less as a trailblazer and more as a renegade with the health care law. Its congressional delegation and new crop of state leaders, including new California insurance chief Dave Jones, are not only embracing the law, they are championing it.

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Renee Montagne talks to Alan Weil, Executive Director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, for an overview of what states are facing in 2011 as they begin to implement the new health care law.

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The Obama administration's biggest domestic policy accomplishment -- the new health care law -- is under steady legal attack.

On Thursday, lawyers argued the first case to hit the courts, filed by the attorney general of Virginia.

More than a dozen other state challenges are in the pipeline.

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The White House unveiled a new health care overhaul plan Monday. It includes a proposal to give federal authorities the power to limit rate hikes by health insurance companies.

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Christmas is coming early this year for the Dems.

With the news that Ben Nelson is falling in line so Dems can avoid a filibuster, the passage of this health care bill has become much more likely (almost a certainty?).