Nov 092012
 

I’m looking forward to a long weekend free of obsessively refreshing the FiveThirtyEight blog. For your Sunday health policy reading, I recommend Sarah Kliff’s piece on how recalcitrant Republican governors are letting the federal government step in to run health insurance exchanges instead of establishing state-based exchanges. GOP governors figure that, rather than try to do all the heavy lifting necessary to set up an exchange, it’s better to let the feds shoulder the burden.

It’s hard to disagree with their reasoning. Minnesota is creating an exchange and it’s a gargantuan task requiring lots of planning and coordination. I’m learning more about business process modeling than I ever anticipated or desired. Minnesota will be successful in its efforts, but I don’t see how a state that previously resisted health care reform could now reverse course and have an exchange ready to go by next year.

  One Response to “On The Sidelines Of Health Care Reform”

  1. […] week, I wrote about how many GOP-led states are declining to establish health insurance exchanges, choosing instead to cede to a federally-administered exchange. Residents of these states will […]

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