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Voters in Arizona, Colorado and Oklahoma will face ballot measures Tuesday challenging a provision in the federal health care law requiring almost everyone to have health insurance. Critics of the measures say they could complicate health care issues within the states.

Oncologists would receive a set fee for certain cancers under this plan, which is being tested at five participating practices. Proponents say that this new strategy aims to identify the best medicines and cut back on profits doctors make by dispensing in-office chemotherapy drugs.

Doctors are leaving private practices in large numbers and going to work for hospitals. Last year, hospitals hired half of the new doctors just out of medical school. Hospital administrators say having more doctors improves care.

Federal requirements that are part of the new health law will make insurance appeals easier and more uniform.

In an unusual August session, House Democrats pushed through an aid package that will boost state Medicaid budgets. But, the lawmakers whiffed on extending a popular insurance subsidy for the unemployed.

Starting next year, Medicare will pay for all sorts of preventive services and recipients won't have to shell out a dime. But workouts, aren't on the list.

The federal law overhauling health care is supposed to make it easier for patients to keep insurance coverage when enrolling in studies of experimental treatments. But for studies outside insurers' networks, problems for patients remain.

As part of the new health law, officials published information on 4,000 individual insurance plans today. A health insurance trade group says the site is misleading. A government spokeswoman says that it holds insurance companies more accountable.

Charge lower rates for health insurance and more people will buy it. Seems obvious, but the number of people with pre-existing conditions to buy federally subsidized insurance varies a lot by state. The reason has a lot to do with the prices.

Provisions of the federal health law boost research by the National Institutes of Health on breast cancer in young women and fund awareness campaigns for breast health. The overhaul provides $9 million a year through 2014.