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A selection of health policy news from Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Kansas.

The Associated Press/New England Cable News: House Passes Health Care Compact Bill The [N.H.] House has voted to form an interstate health care compact, rejecting an effort to instead study the cost implications for New Hampshire if the state assumed control for health care within its boundaries. Under the bill, the states would receive block grants from the federal government and would take over Medicare and Medicaid (3/28).

Kansas Health Institute News: Health Care Compact Bill Not Taken Up By Conference Committee Rep.

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Finding affordable health care is difficult for a large majority of individuals currently without health insurance. According to a new analysis, three out of four uninsured Americans live in states that have yet to determine how best to provide its residents with the medical care they need.

Affordable Health Care Not Available to 1 in 4 Uninsured

After the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed in March 2010, states were given the responsibility of carrying out an immense expansion of health insurance by 2014.

States were required to create their on health insurance exchanges that offer uninsured individuals options that are roughly as affordable as those found with employer-sponsored coverage, as well as come up with other ways to offer affordable health care.

However, according to the analysis, only a few so far have been successful. Current

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House Pushes for Health Insurance Providers to Offer Identical Plans

The legislation, which passed in the House with 251-172 vote, is fighting against insurance providers covering abortion.

Prior to the law passing, the government allowed federal dollars to be used as a form ofhealth insurance to pay for abortions if the pregnant women were considered to be in life-threatening situations, or were the victims of rape or incest. Obama signed an executive order reaffirming this rule, known as the Hyde Amendment.

The legislation is meant to ensure companies dont provide abortion coverage to anyone receiving federal subsidies.

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