Posted on 12/20/2010 12:36:07 PM PST by Libloather
States Move to Implement Health Care Reform as Fight Continues in Courthouses, Congress
By: Betty Ann Bowser
December 20, 2010 at 12:55 PM EDT
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But the incoming chairmen of three key House committees have all indicated they will try to slow down the law by holding hearings and summoning Obama administration officials to the Hill to testify. And they have also signaled they will try to shut off the federal government's money spigot by refusing to fund some portions of the law.
Much of the work of implementing reform, though, will take place in the states. And Brian Quinn, Director for Health Policy Analysis at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, says that on the state level, implementation of the reform law is moving forward.
"Despite the rhetoric, we see a lot of activity across the country," he says.
Forty-eight states have applied for and received $1 million grants from the federal Department of Health and Human Services to begin planning health insurance exchanges -- the state-based marketplaces where consumers will be able to shop for insurance beginning in 2014. Only Alaska and Minnesota have turned down the money, and Minnesota governor-elect Mark Dayton has said he will pursue the grant when he takes office.
Quinn says that most of the 48 states that have accepted federal money to plan for exchanges have set up work groups or task forces, and that almost all of them have websites.
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Warm up the DVR.
Forty-eight states have applied for and received $1 million grants from the federal Department of Health and Human Services to show that they too have no balls.
You are so right. The states should all be refusing to move forward until this thing is settled by SCOTUS.
Liberals don’t waste time, or give a damn about the law.
Full speed ahead, damn the citizens!!!!!
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