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States continue to weigh the pros and cons of Medicaid expansion in an effort to project whether the fiscal model is sustainable in the long term. Given the impact of such a huge decision, the 2014 deadline doesn't seem that far away. Here are some of the latest news items around this debate.

On July 9, President Obama signed into law the US Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA). The bipartisan legislation is the culmination of more than a year of negotiations and aims to spur the development of lifesaving treatments and therapies for the approximately 30 million Americans who suffer from rare diseases. The act also gives the FDA the authority to collect user fees from industry to fund reviews of innovator drugs, medical devices, generic drugs, and biosimilar biologics.