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This week's health care reform news:

Senate Passes Prescription Drug User-Fee Bill

The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation reauthorizing the prescription drug and medical device user-fee programs and creating new user-fee programs for bio-similar biological products and generic drugs.

Other highlights include:

• Proponents of new health insurance rate review regulations in California have gathered 800,000 signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
• The Kansas governor has signed into law a package of tax cuts expected to mean deep cuts in state spending.
• Federal authorities have clarified that New Mexico will use a medical loss ratio of 80 percent for small groups under federal health care reform – an online reporting form displayed an incorrect number.
• Oklahoma’s legislature adjourned after failing to pass income tax cuts and an oral chemotherapy coverage mandate.

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