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States Saying No To Health Care Marketplaces Is Good News
- February 27th, 2013 Richard Kirsch: The National Memo
Obamacare has a better chance at success if it’s taken out of the hands of Republican governors who want to see it fail.
The headlines – “Many States Say ‘No’ to Health Insurance Exchanges,” to take one example – make it seem like bad news. But it’s not. It is good news that half the states are refusing to have anything to do with the new health insurance marketplaces being set up under the Affordable Care Act.
One of the biggest differences between the good version of Obamacare passed by the House and the mediocre Senate version that became law was the question of whether the federal government or states would run the new health insurance marketplaces (called “exchanges” in the law). But resistance by Republican governors is leading to implementation of the law in a way that is much closer to the vision in the House bill.
...The last thing consumers needed was for governors who want the ACA to fail – like Florida’s Rick Scott and Texas’ Rick Perry – to be in charge of the law’s implementation. We can be sure that governors in these states would do the minimum amount under the law to sign people up or to protect consumers from high-priced, poor-quality health insurance plans.
- more: http://www.nationalmemo.com/states-saying-no-to-health-care-marketplaces-is-good-news/
The headlines – “Many States Say ‘No’ to Health Insurance Exchanges,” to take one example – make it seem like bad news. But it’s not. It is good news that half the states are refusing to have anything to do with the new health insurance marketplaces being set up under the Affordable Care Act.
One of the biggest differences between the good version of Obamacare passed by the House and the mediocre Senate version that became law was the question of whether the federal government or states would run the new health insurance marketplaces (called “exchanges” in the law). But resistance by Republican governors is leading to implementation of the law in a way that is much closer to the vision in the House bill.
...The last thing consumers needed was for governors who want the ACA to fail – like Florida’s Rick Scott and Texas’ Rick Perry – to be in charge of the law’s implementation. We can be sure that governors in these states would do the minimum amount under the law to sign people up or to protect consumers from high-priced, poor-quality health insurance plans.
- more: http://www.nationalmemo.com/states-saying-no-to-health-care-marketplaces-is-good-news/
Interesting angle. So maybe those of us in states with idiot Republican anti-Obamacare governors will benefit from their hands-off approach. "Government takeover of healthcare" -- bring it on!
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