The Sebelius Coverup

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The Sebelius Coverup

 

 

 

 

David Malan

 

Obamacare’s insurance exchanges need scrutiny.

 

Dec 10, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 13 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

 

Many states are wisely signaling that they aren’t interested in doing the Obama administration’s bidding on Obamacare. As a result, many if not most of Obamacare’s insurance exchanges — the heart of the beast — will have to be set up and run by the Obama administration at the federal level.

 

States are not required to set up Obamacare exchanges, but it seems to have surprised observers that many are choosing not to. Politico reports that, with only 17 states so far having said they will set up the exchanges, the “Department of Health and Human Services’s role in bringing the law to life is going to be a lot bigger than originally thought.” More than a third of all states have already said they won’t set up the Obamacare exchanges. Among others, Republican governors Scott Walker, John Kasich, Sam Brownback, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Nathan Deal, Paul LePage, Robert Bentley, Mary Fallin, and Sean Parnell have said they’ll refuse to set up the exchanges in their states.

 

In Missouri, voters took matters into their own hands, approving a ballot measure to

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12/08/2012 @ 8:55AM |

 

Avik Roy, Contributor

How Red States Wrestle with Obamacare: The Forbes Interview with Texas' Rick Perry

 

 

Earlier this week, I interviewed Texas Governor Rick Perry at the 2012 Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York. Perry’s Texas has been an engine of economic growth, far outpacing national indicators, and Perry has a source of creative free-market approaches to state policy problems, especially in the health-care arena. Indeed, some of Perry’s most interesting initiatives are the ones that have remained on the shelf: for example, his exploration of cross-border health insurance as a way to make coverage more affordable for millions of people along the Rio Grande. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our discussion, in which Perry talked about how states should respond to the implementation of Obamacare, and what the Republican health-care message should be in 2016. http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/12/08/how-red-states-wrestle-with-obamacare-the-forbes-interview-with-texas-gov-rick-perry/