{"id":17232,"date":"2013-02-16T18:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T23:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17232"},"modified":"2013-02-16T18:19:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T23:19:05","slug":"deadline-passed-24-states-refuse-obamacare-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17232\/deadline-passed-24-states-refuse-obamacare-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Passed, 24 States Refuse ObamaCare Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decides to once again bump back the deadline that passed yesterday, as of right now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/feb\/16\/after-obamacare-health-exchange-deadline-passes-26\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">24 states<\/a> have told the Obama Administration they will not create a state-based health insurance exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of ObamaCare, this means that HHS will now take over the process in these states, adding hundreds of millions in new costs to federal taxpayers.\u00a0 Moreover, the short time horizon between now and October when the plans must be available on the exchanges (they\u2019ll be effective next January), means that there is likely to be an enormous push to hire more HHS bureaucrats to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been said that when it comes to something being fast, accurate, and cheap, you can have any two but not all three.\u00a0 If history is any guide, the feds will go oh-for-three.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/feb\/16\/after-obamacare-health-exchange-deadline-passes-26\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decides to once again bump back the deadline that passed yesterday, as of right now 24 states have told the Obama Administration they will not create a state-based health insurance exchange. Under the terms of ObamaCare, this means that HHS will now take over the process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,3007,3308,186,1829,35,1912],"class_list":["post-17232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-hhs","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17237,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions\/17237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}