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The bills pending in Congress could alter some restrictions on insurers and channel money to state health programs. The House bill includes, for instance, $23.5 billion to “allow Congress to continue pumping billions in new short-term aid to states to cover Medicaid costs that have increased with rising unemployment in the past year,” The Washington Post reports.

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