Louisiana lawmakers have revived a proposal seeking to recreate federal health law protections for those with pre-existing health conditions in state law.
Contraception is among a range of preventive services that must be provided at no extra charge under the health care law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010 and the Supreme Court upheld two years later.
Only four of 19 nationally recognized cancer centers that responded to an Associated Press survey said patients have access through all the insurers in their states' exchanges.
Declaring 2014 a "year of action" as he unveiled a series of relatively meager executive actions, President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address Tuesday night to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" he can in order to push through his agenda.