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FILE - This March 12, 2014 file photo shows Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Three million Americans signed up for Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s new health care law as of the end of February, the administration said Friday, offering its first full accounting of how much the safety-net health program has grown since implementation of the law. In a blog, Sebelius said: “The increase in Medicaid enrollments across the country is encouraging, but more work is left to do to ensure that the millions of uninsured Americans eligible for these programs gain coverage”. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Registered Nurse Babette Richter, background, with the South Jersey AIDS Alliance talks to a gathering about the technique for administering the heroin overdose antidote, naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, in Camden, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. The drive to raise naloxone's profile has created tensions between those who say it could save potentially thousands of lives and critics who say the promise of a nearby antidote would only encourage drug abuse. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
