[Squidpup]

” the politics can get ugly around this.” Seriously

[Still Thinking]

What's important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits--but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you're essentially saying [to] your citizens you're going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this.

That was one possibility that occurred to me, that it was written that way intentionally to bully states into playing along.

[rdcbn]

It was not a typo, it was a speak 0.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

WSJ is dead to me. Pro-amnesty trash

[Hostage]

Barone nails the reason dems had it written as it was written, here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3184949/posts

And it was no drafting error.

[JoeRed]

He doesn’t seem to understand what the word “literally” means either:
“Literally every single person involved in the crafting of this law has said that it’s a typo”