Idaho Guv Opts To Build Obamacare Insurance Exchange

[vadermike]

Source: TPM

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter (R) announced Tuesday that, pending approval of the state legislature, Idaho will build a health insurance exchange as stipulated by Obamcare.

Otter made clear that the decision is not an endorsement of the law, arguing in a press release that the decision would mean Idaho would create the exchange rather than having the federal government do it for the state.

Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/idaho-guv-opts-to-build-obamacare-insurance-exchange?ref=fpb

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Some more good news DU!! I think the smart non-tea-bagging GOP guv's will keep doing this IMHO...hopefully the tea-party will become a meaningless.....and we might have two functioning parties.. rather than just one..

IMHO

[Cleita]

1. Probably, but they will figure out a way to screw the poor

family if it's Idaho, and the sheep will go along with it because "Butch" is such a great guy.

[targetpractice]

2. For consumers... What is the downside of the feds doing it?

I'd rather Obama build it than an unsupportive Republican governor.

[Blackhawk44]

3. the middleman always takes his cut

state or federal