Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is casting doubt on whether the state budget will include a health exchange required under the federal health care act, saying there is too much uncertainty to create it now.
As part of the federal health care act backed by President Obama and approved by Congress, states are required to set up health exchanges so that the uninsured can buy the health care plans that they will be required to purchase when the act is fully implemented.
Negotiations on the health care exchange for New York began nearly a year ago, but an agreement fell through during the final week of the 2011 legislative session, when some Republican Senators objected to enacting any portion of what opponents call “Obamacare”.
This year, Governor Cuomo made a second attempt to enact the health exchanges. He has made them part of his new budget plan. But the Republican Leader of the Senate, Dean Skelos, says his GOP Majority is very reluctant to sign off on the exchanges.
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Hat Tip: WXXI News - NPR
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