Scott Rupp, chairman of a Missouri Senate committee to decide how the state will implement healthcare reform, says the state will likely pass on implementing its own health insurance exchange, according to a Missouri Net report.
The Senate Interim Committee on Health Insurance Exchanges was tasked with deciding how the state will proceed with the creation of a health insurance exchange. Under healthcare reform, states are mandated to set up an exchange by 2014 or invite the federal government to take over the process.
Mr. Rupp said he thinks it "unlikely" a bill on a health insurance exchange would be passed through the Missouri Senate. He called Missouri a "sovereign state" that will "do things that we see best for Missourians" rather than bend to the will of the federal government.
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The Senate Interim Committee on Health Insurance Exchanges was tasked with deciding how the state will proceed with the creation of a health insurance exchange. Under healthcare reform, states are mandated to set up an exchange by 2014 or invite the federal government to take over the process.
Mr. Rupp said he thinks it "unlikely" a bill on a health insurance exchange would be passed through the Missouri Senate. He called Missouri a "sovereign state" that will "do things that we see best for Missourians" rather than bend to the will of the federal government.
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