MINOR: Mississippi’s Chaney supports health insurance exchange
Every Mississippi Republican in state office is in lockstep with GOP presidential standard-bearer Mitt Romney in advocating total elimination of what their camp calls Obamacare, right? Wrong.
State Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney sees one particular component of the Affordable Care Act – the health insurance exchange, an online insurance marketplace on comparable rates and provisions – as a crucial tool to broaden health care of Mississippians. Moreso, Chaney has taken steps to see that it is implemented, gathering proposals of companies that would enter the exchange.
Though a frontal legal attack by 26 Republican governors on the act’s constitutionality in a lawsuit is aimed at ACA’s federal mandate for everyone to buy some form of health insurance, many believe the insurance exchanges are really at the heart of the reform measure pushed by President Obama.
The Supreme Court heard the lawsuit in March and is expected to rule on the case before the end of the month.
Bill Minor
6/20/12
Magnolia Tribune
