Obamacare: For State Republicans, It’s Decision Time
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In Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant, a persistent critic of Obamacare who personally sued the administration to stop the law, is feuding with fellow Republican Mike Chaney, the commissioner of insurance. Bryant wants Washington to handle Mississippi’s exchange. Chaney doesn’t want the federal government involved because he believes the state would have “zero control.” Before the election, Chaney, a Romney backer, said he’d submit a plan for a state exchange to the Department of Health and Human Services if Obama won. “I will file a blueprint for the exchange on Nov. 16 unless I get a court order from some idiot out there trying to stop me,” he said. He ended up doing so two days ahead of his own schedule.
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Bloomberg
12/6/12
Magnolia Tribune
