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Here’s what’s happening in health news this morning:

House Set to Vote on Health Law Repeal (WSJ): The House has voted 30 times previously to undo all or part of the health law, and the Senate is all but certain to ignore the House action. But GOP leaders want to reaffirm their opposition to it in advance of November’s elections.

Previous polls by the Kaiser Family Foundation have consistently demonstrated that the country is deeply divided on the health-care overhaul law. But according to the group’s latest poll, almost half of those surveyed either believed the health law had been outright repealed (22%) or didn’t know enough to answer one way or the other (26%).

Also: disagreeing over the details of insurance decision reviews; health-care overhaul repeal dies in the Senate; birth control and prevention.

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After years of delay, the Senate approved an aid bill for sick Ground Zero workers on a voice vote Wednesday that took less than a minute.

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Also: federal health-claims database questioned; Senate report details device allegations; Hodgkin’s lymphoma drug shows promise.

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Also: judge dismisses suit challenging health-care overhaul law; conservative AMA members don’t like the individual mandate; food-safety law clears the Senate.

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Yesterday the Senate effectively rejected a spending bill that included a 19-month fix for Medicare payments.

Here is the original: Medicare Doc Fix Update: 19-Month Relief Flops in Senate

Student loans appear to be a health overhaul headache: the reconciliation bill is going back to the House for a vote, thanks to Senate Republicans who found two provisions in the document — including one related to student loans — that violate its rules and can’t be included in the final bill.

This post by WSJ’s Naftali Bendavid also appears on the Washington Wire blog.

We’re not doing anything wrong. And besides, the Republicans did it more.

That was much of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s message today as he struck back at critics of the legislative tactics Democrats are using to push through their health overhaul bill. Dismissing the criticism as an inside-the-Beltway fixation, Hoyer said the American public cares about what’s in a bill, not the process by which it passes.

It’s another Monday and another week of to-ing and fro-ing on the health-care bill in Washington. But this week is different because there could actually be votes on the legislation.