Otter Opinion: State-based exchange best
At my request and after careful, deliberate consideration, the Idaho Senate recently approved legislation affirming my choice of a state-based health insurance exchange.
That bill now goes to the Idaho House of Representatives, where debate figures to be just as passionate. That’s understandable, since most members of the Idaho Legislature share my intense opposition to the so-called Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
But the issue before us has nothing to do with how we feel about Obamacare, how we feel about overreaching federal authority and the government’s failure in this gargantuan and unworkable piece of law to address the essential goals of more affordable and accessible health care.
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Governor Butch Otter, special to Cda Press
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