Tagged: health exchange

For more than a year, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and others at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have been courting states to take part in setting up and running a health insurance exchange. But Missouri, home of an enthusiastic governor and opposing legislature, keeps sending mixed messages. Now, with Friday’s deadline looming for states to commit to joining the feds in setting up an exchange, it appears as though HHS will be flying solo in the Show-Me state.

Neither Kansas nor Missouri will be involved in setting up a health exchange, according to announcements by both governors Thursday.

Proposition E specifically asks voters:

Two ballot questions going before Missouri voters in November won’t cost or save the state any money, according the State Auditor’s office.

This fall, voters in Missouri will face a number of decisions: picking state and congressional representatives, the President.  But also on the ballot will be a measure that like two years ago, has to do with the federal health law. 

The use of about $27 million in federal funds to help create a health insurance exchange in Missouri has come to a complete halt. 

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