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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Obamacare: Pennsylvania Governor Rejects Health Insurance Exchange

Pennsylvania will allow the federal government to implement a major part of President Barack Obama's health care reform law without state input, Gov. Tom Corbett (R) announced Wednesday.

Pennsylvania won't create a health insurance exchange under the law, making it the 22nd state to leave the authority to the federal government, Corbett said in a press release. These health insurance exchanges will be the online gateways where as many as 30 million people will be able to obtain health coverage and access financial assistance starting in 2014 under Obamacare.

Congress intended for the federal government and the states to share responsibility for the oversight and implementation of these new health insurance marketplaces, but nearly half of states, almost all of them run by Republican governors, have rebuffed the plan and ceded control to the federal government ahead of a Friday deadline for states to decide whether the health insurance exchanges will be state-run, federally run or jointly administered.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank goodness for Republican Governors.

Anonymous said...

Under the law, if the states refuse to create the exchanges and let the Feds do it, then the individual and employer mandates are null and void in that state.
The boneheads that wrote this law made many many mistakes and this is just another.

Anonymous said...

But it is a slippery slope leading to a single-payer system that the Socialist party wants!