A federal lawsuit instituted by a Christian college in western Pennsylvania challenging provisions of President’s Obama’s health reform law requiring its health plan to cover birth control has been reinstated.

Nowhere else in the country is a jurisdiction taking such advantage of the broadly interpreted health reform law to boost not only political influence and power, but control over individuals and businesses, as in Washington, D.C.

The federal government announced New York will receive about $7.1 million of $150 million distributed throughout the nation to sign on “navigators,” community health centers that will hire workers to enroll uninsured citizens into the federally run health insurance marketplace.

The federal government announced Pennsylvania will receive about $4.2 million of $150 million distributed throughout the nation to sign on “navigators,” community health centers that will hire workers to enroll uninsured citizens into the federally run health insurance marketplace.

The federal government announced New Jersey will receive about $3.3 million of $150 million distributed throughout the nation to sign on “navigators,” community health centers that will hire workers to enroll uninsured citizens into the federally run health insurance marketplace.

The federal government announced Virginia will receive about $2.5 million of $150 million distributed throughout the nation to sign on “navigators,” community health centers that will hire workers to enroll uninsured citizens into the federally run health insurance marketplace.

The federal government announced Maryland will receive about $1.7 million of $150 million distributed throughout the nation to sign on “navigators,” community health centers that will hire workers to enroll uninsured citizens into the federally run health insurance marketplace.

Delaware is starting the process to develop its online health insurance exchange on the heels of a $2.48 million grant from the federal government to assist its compliance with the health reform law.

Business owners from six states have initiated a class action federal lawsuit seeking to overturn a key part of the health reform law that they say oversteps the government’s authority.

The nation’s largest health insurers are far from leaping at the chance to join new state health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama‘s reform law, making it likely that some markets will have little or no competition next year. These new insurance marketplaces are due to open their doors on October 1 to…