Despite years of prodding and pleading by the Obama administration, close to half the nation's governors will not take a critical step to implement the president's health care law next year, leaving the job of running new insurance markets for their residents to the federal government. But what was once viewed as a setback for the Affordable Care Act is increasingly seen as a blessing by consumer advocates, many of whom doubt that officials in some Republican-controlled states are committed to implementing a law they fervently oppose. "I'm happy this will be run by the federal government," said Sue Berkowitz, director of
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