Kentucky state lawmakers fed up with Gov. Steve Beshear's (D) recent signing of an executive order to create health insurance exchanges based on recommendations from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are blocking the state from renting office space for new employees needed to develop the exchange, according to a Hill report.
Kentucky's Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee voted along partisan lines to block funding to rent offices for 210 health exchange employees.
Blocking office space is an illustration of how deeply some Republicans oppose the healthcare law, according to the report.
Health exchanges are state-based marketplaces where individuals and small businesses can buy coverage, often with a subsidy from the federal government. The healthcare law invites states to set up their own exchange; HHS will create exchanges beginning January 2014 in states that do not.
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Kentucky's Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee voted along partisan lines to block funding to rent offices for 210 health exchange employees.
Blocking office space is an illustration of how deeply some Republicans oppose the healthcare law, according to the report.
Health exchanges are state-based marketplaces where individuals and small businesses can buy coverage, often with a subsidy from the federal government. The healthcare law invites states to set up their own exchange; HHS will create exchanges beginning January 2014 in states that do not.
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