Republicans governors vs. Obamacare
Posted by Sarah Kliff at 12:49 PM ET, 05/11/2012
"The Supreme Court decision isn’t that far off at this point: It’s expected to come down in late June. In about two months time, these states will know a lot more about whether Obamacare still stands. The big question then is, how much can they do?
States that get going after the Supreme Court decision will have about six months to tackle a massive to-do list: Pass legislation that authorizes an exchange, hire a board to govern it, find vendors to set up the technical aspects and have it nearly up and running by Jan. 1, 2013, so that it can begin accepting customers next fall.
The conventional wisdom in health policy circles right now is that states that have not taken steps toward implementation yet just will not have the capacity to do so, on such a short time frame. Some of it has to do with the sheer scale of the task; California, for example, has been working on its exchange for over a year now, and is still far from being done."
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