So, this is an inauspicious beginning…
The federal government will likely be involved in running the ObamaCare exchange in at least 30 states, 26 of which expressly declined to establish state exchanges. One health-policy expert refers to it as an “administrative nightmare” for the Department of Health and Human Services.
Friday was the deadline for a state to let HHS know if it planned to establish a state exchange. Thus far only 18 states and the District of Columbia are planning on doing so.
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Enrolling them will likely prove a daunting challenge for the federal government.
“HHS expected to be running zero exchanges,” said Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. “They have been throwing money at states to bribe them to start exchanges. HHS maintains they’ll have these things up and running by October 2013. I don’t know anyone who is confident about that and I’m ready to predict that they will not.”
…via 26 States Decline ObamaCare Exchange; ‘Administrative Nightmare’ Seen – Investors.com.
Why aren’t the States playing? They aren’t interested in being a conduit for plans they don’t run, the state gets all the blame for decisions they don’t make. (That, plus general opposition to the whole idea: it’s your plan, you run it…).
All this, by the way, projected to insure 25 million Americans through this plan in the next seven years. None of this controls costs, or spending.
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