The funding that 16 states and the District of Columbia are set to receive to run their new health insurance exchanges is part of a “permanent appropriation,” meaning the money is cemented in the 2010 healthcare reform law and isn’t subject to annual appropriations, Paul Van de Water, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, told Reuters.
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