Alaska governor rejects state-run health exchange as Friday deadline looms [View all]

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God, how I hate this guy. As I've said here before, Sean Parnell makes me miss Sarah.

http://www.adn.com/2012/11/14/2693040/alaska-governor-rejects-state.html

Gov. Sean Parnell announced in July that Alaska would not create a state-run health insurance exchange, and he is sticking by that, Parnell spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said Tuesday.

Under the federal Affordable Care Act, each state is supposed to have an exchange, a marketplace where residents can shop for private health insurance and apply for federal subsidies to help pay for it, if they are eligible.

States can create the exchanges on their own, or do it in partnership with the federal government, or leave the whole project to the U.S. Department of Health and Social Services.

The deadline for states to declare that they'll run their own health exchange is Friday.

Alaska will neither do that, nor partner with the federal government on a joint exchange, Leighow said.

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