From the Huffington Post: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) announced that he will not support creating a health insurance exchange for uninsured residents under President Barack Obama's health care reform law.
News New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) became the latest state chief executive to rebuff President Barack Obama's health care reform law Thursday by vetoing a bill that would have created an online marketplace for uninsured residents to shop for health insurance.
For the second time this year, Christie rejected legislation passed by New Jersey's Democratic-controlled legislature that would have established a state-run health insurance exchange under Obamacare. The exchanges will be the gateway to health insurance coverage and financial assistance for individuals and small businesses under the 2010 federal law. New Jersey is now the 19th state to decline to create its own exchange, which will leave the federal government in charge of these new marketplaces in those states.
Christie said the health law, known as the Affordable Care Act, doesn't give states enough leeway to design health insurance markets for their residents and that federal authorities haven't provided enough information about how the exchanges would work.
"I will not ask New Jerseyans to commit today to a state-based exchange when the federal government cannot tell us what it will cost, how that cost compares to other options and how much control they will give the states over this option that comes at the cost of our state’s taxpayers," Christie said in a news release. "We will comply with the Affordable Care Act, but only in the most efficient and cost effective way for New Jersey taxpayers." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/chris-christie-veto-obamacare_n_2251019.html
If more Republicans demand the Federal government do these health insurance exchanges, the faster ObamaCar fails and the disater of ObamaCare will be over.
If Obama and the crackpot lefties want ObamaCare, then they should do it themselves.
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