At least nine Republican attorneys general, including Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, are questioning the legality of a compromise on Nebraska’s Medicaid payments that enabled the U.S. Senate’s health care reform bill to win approval.

While President Barack Obama praised a $1.2 trillion comprehensive health reform bill passed by the House as “courageous” and “historic,” Republican congressmen and members of the insurance industry are faulting the bill for its numerous shortcomings, especially the public option.

A Pennsylvania congresswoman is among several sponsors of a bill to include long-term care insurance in employer-sponsored cafeteria plans and flexible spending accounts that has been introduced in Congress.

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