New York Governor Defies Lawmakers, Uses Executive Power to Establish Health Insurance Exchanges

Gov. Andrew Cuomo defied the vote of New York state lawmakers and issued an executive order to establish a health insurance exchange through New York's health department, according to a New York Times report.

The exchange will be an online marketplace for individuals and small businesses to compare health insurance plans.

New York becomes the eleventh state to form a health insurance exchange and only the second — behind Rhode Island — to use an executive order to establish one. There's a lawsuit challenging the governor's order in that state.

The PPACA requires individual states to institute a health insurance exchange by 2014. If states fail to get one started, the federal government will step in and institute one.

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