Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, advisor to Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney, has expressed his support for state health insurance exchanges, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Mr. Leavitt spoke to a bipartisan group of governors at the National Governors Association and said the exchanges are a "very practical solution to a problem that needs to be solved." States must set up the insurance exchanges by Jan. 2014, or the federal government will step in and set them up. Mr. Leavitt said governors who are reluctant to set up health exchanges will only put the work in the hands of federal regulators.
He said the healthcare law currently gives states the flexibility and funding they need to set up exchanges. The comments came at a time when every major Republican presidential candidate has promised to repeal the healthcare reform law. Mr. Romney has so far criticized aspects of the healthcare law while defending the plan he established for Massachusetts, which included an exchange almost identical to the health reform law.
Read the Wall Street Journal report on state health insurance exchanges.
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Mr. Leavitt spoke to a bipartisan group of governors at the National Governors Association and said the exchanges are a "very practical solution to a problem that needs to be solved." States must set up the insurance exchanges by Jan. 2014, or the federal government will step in and set them up. Mr. Leavitt said governors who are reluctant to set up health exchanges will only put the work in the hands of federal regulators.
He said the healthcare law currently gives states the flexibility and funding they need to set up exchanges. The comments came at a time when every major Republican presidential candidate has promised to repeal the healthcare reform law. Mr. Romney has so far criticized aspects of the healthcare law while defending the plan he established for Massachusetts, which included an exchange almost identical to the health reform law.
Read the Wall Street Journal report on state health insurance exchanges.
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