Michigan- House GOP Blocks Efforts To Set Up Health Exchange

Michigan is making little progress toward creating a statewide health exchange required by federal law, held up by House Republicans who want to wait until the U.S. Supreme Court decides if the law is constitutional.

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But state Licensing and Regulatory Affairs director Steve Hilfinger, who last year was given the task of creating the exchange by Gov. Rick Snyder, worries Michigan could run out of time to put a state health exchange in place by January if it can't start planning now. If it fails to meet the deadline, the federal government would install its own exchange where consumers could compare private health insurance plans.

That's why the director would like House Republicans to approve spending the money.


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