The public debate is under way in the Senate over how to create a health benefits exchange in Virginia, but any legislation appears headed to a dead-end in the House of Delegates.
House Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford, said Wednesday that he would discourage approval of legislation in the current General Assembly session to create an exchange.
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The speaker's position mirrors that of Gov. Bob McDonnell, who doesn't want the state to take action to establish an exchange until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the federal health care reform law that would require its creation.
But key Republican legislators in the Senate say they do not believe Virginia can wait for a ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and meet looming federal deadlines if the law were upheld.
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