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As you know, Bobby Jindal has reacted to the Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare by declaring defiantly that his state wont be implementing the law.
Were not moving forward with the exchanges, Jindal said. Instead, were going to do everything we can to defeat President Obama, get rid of ObamaCare.
This has been greeted mostly as states rights bluster designed to appeal to a national conservative audience. But its also worth noting that in striking this great blow for Louisianas rights, he is basically ensuring that the federal government will come in and build the exchange in his state for him potentially without his input on how best to tailor it to his own constituents.
The Affordable Care Act requires states to have exchanges. A state has several options: It can build the exchange itself, or it can collaborate with the federal government to build it, or it can let the federal government run it. The state has to tell the feds what path it has decided to take by mid-November. If the state does not want to run its own exchange, or collaborate with the feds to run it, the feds will begin setting up the exchange themselves in January.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/bobby-jindals-big-blow-for-states-rights/2012/06/29/gJQAm7F9BW_blog.html
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)spanone
(135,952 posts)pacalo
(24,722 posts)for which he takes credit. I've yet to see one sign along the construction routes that indicates who is actually responsible for the significant progress.
/spellin'
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Since it's a consistent pattern with them.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Hopefully the people of LA will learn something from this and turn on these dumb as posts repuglican thugs.
localroger
(3,636 posts)By not implementing a state level exchange he is basically inviting the Feds to build one for him. That's great! It won't feature the usual cast of Louisiana characters with their hands in the till. I really think these Republican't governors haven't thought it through; the new law is almost as beautifully structured as the seatbelt and drinking-age-21 laws to fuck them over. I have my quibbles, especially with the drinking age thing since our state Constitution places all such adult things at 18, but IMO if the Feds are gonna do a little abusing of their power this is a good place to do it and they aren't even stepping on our state laws to do so.