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State News Headlines

November 14, 2006

The following headlines are compiled as an internal service for state Attorney General offices only. This list is not exhaustive and is a snapshot of news from around the country compiled through the use of various search engines.

Pa.'s 1st Casino Braces for Opening Day

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- About 100 gamblers, some standing for hours in a foggy drizzle, waited in line Tuesday morning for Pennsylvania's first slot-machine parlor to open to the public--more than two years after lawmakers authorized gambling to raise money for property tax relief…CasinoFreePa, an anti-gambling group, asked state Attorney General Tom Corbett on Monday to prevent Mohegan Sun and other Pennsylvania casinos from opening until his office investigates whether slot machines comply with fraud and consumer protection laws. Full Article

City Sues to Block Linkup Between 2 Health Insurers

Waiting until nearly the last possible day, New York City sued yesterday to block the planned union of the HIP Health Plan of New York and GHI, charging that the combination would violate antitrust laws. The fusion of the companies, creating the largest health insurer in the metropolitan region, with more than four million customers, is set to take effect tomorrow. The city will go to Federal District Court in Manhattan today, seeking an order to prevent that from happening. Full Article

Report: Texas outsourcing project raises questions for other states

A group that works to support low- and middle-income Texans said Monday that the state's problems with outsourcing enrollment for food, health care and cash assistance benefits should serve as a warning for other states. The embattled project — a five-year contract worth more than $800 million, awarded to a group of private companies led by Accenture LLP — is the nation's most ambitious effort to privatize services for low-income residents, but it's not the only one. As other states seek to modernize enrollment systems that tend to rely on filing cabinets rather than computer systems and in-person meetings rather than Web- and phone-based applications, they should avoid some of Texas' mistakes by allowing time for training and testing, the Center for Public Policy Priorities report says. Full Article

Leslie R. Kershaw
Communications Assistant
Office: (202) 326-6027
Fax: (202) 408-8061
Email: lnelson@naag.org

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