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		<title>In a Presidential Election Year, States Left to Pick Up the Pieces of Health Reform</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Holden, Vice President On January 25, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), released information identifying the three largest health plans in each state, as well as the three largest national Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) plans to aid states as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=statesideassoc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8587953&amp;post=1947&amp;subd=statesideassoc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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