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MindMover

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Fri Apr 20, 2012, 04:37 PM Apr 2012

States Could Be in a Hurry if Obamacare Upheld

What if the Supreme Court upholds Obamacare?

With many Republican state leaders declaring they won’t move forward on implementing the law until the nation’s highest court issues its opinion, there could be a last-minute crunch, reports CQ’s Jane Norman.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said she’s preparing for the law to be upheld.

“What we are anticipating when the court finds the law constitutional is that we may have a rush of people who say, ‘How fast can we get ready?’” Sebelius said following an appearance at a health care forum. “That’s part of the planning going on; what we can do to get states ready to go by 2014.” Under the law, states must have their exchanges up and running by then.

If states have not set up their own exchanges, the federal government is supposed to step in — an outcome many Republican leaders would prefer to avoid.

http://www.congress.org/news/states-could-be-in-a-hurry-if-obamacare-upheld/

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