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US won’t define required health care benefits

States will set rules within wide categories

By Robert Pear

 |  New York Times  

  December 17, 2011

In a major surprise on the politically charged new health care law, the Obama administration said yesterday that it would not define a single uniform set of “essential health benefits’’ that must be provided by insurers for tens of millions of Americans.

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