Snyder gives up on plan for state-run health exchange

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit News

August 22, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Snyder gives up on plan for state-run health exchange
By Chad Livengood
Detroit News Lansing Bureau


Lansing - Gov. Rick Snyder is abandoning hopes of setting up a state-run health insurance exchange system after repeatedly failing to convince fellow Republicans in the state House to authorize the program, The Detroit News has learned.

Instead, the governor will pursue a joint partnership with the federal government to create an online portal for customers to shop for health insurance as mandated by President Barack Obama's health reform law, Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel confirmed Wednesday.

"He would have preferred a state-based exchange so Michigan can control its own destination instead of the feds being in driver's seat," Wurfel told The News.

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When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Obama's signature domestic policy in June, GOP lawmakers said they would not be rushed into a decision. Some lawmakers wanted to follow the lead of Attorney General Bill Schuette and wait to see if Obama gets re-elected before deciding whether Michigan should follow the law.



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House Speaker Jase Bolger belongs in jail.

[Panasonic]

1. So does Snyder and the rest of the Teabagging Republicans

every single one of them is complicit in RICO charges.

[Shadowflash]

2. These people are such morons.

They rant and rave about the evil government meddling in peoples affairs and state's rights but they are taking something that would be 100% state created and controlled and turning it over to the federal government to set up and run.

Can't these idiots hear themselves?

Why should anybody take anything they say seriously?