{"id":3133,"date":"2013-02-19T11:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2013-02-19T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T16:29:27","slug":"its-official-the-feds-will-run-most-obamacare-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/its-official-the-feds-will-run-most-obamacare-exchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: The feds will run most Obamacare exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ACA.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3134\" alt=\"ACA\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ACA-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ACA-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ACA-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ACA-400x225.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ACA.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday was a very important day for health policy days. It was the last day for states to tell the federal government whether they wanted any part in running the Affordable Care Act\u00a0 health exchanges come 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government did not get many takers. Some of the most closely watched states, including Florida and New Jersey, decided to leave the entire task to the federal government. All told, the federal government will run 26 of the state health exchanges. It\u00a0 also will partner with seven states, where state and federal officials take joint responsibility for the marketplace. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia will take on the task themselves. Here\u2019s what that looks like in map form, via the Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>As for the partisan breakdown, this graph should give you a sense of how politics played a role in state decisions. While you do see some Republican-led states running exchanges\u2014and some states with Democratic governors passing up the opportunity\u2014there is a definite split along party lines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE &gt;&gt;<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/02\/18\/its-official-the-feds-will-run-most-obamacare-exchanges\/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s official: The feds will run most Obamacare exchanges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was a very important day for health policy days. It was the last day for states to tell the federal government whether they wanted any part in running the Affordable Care Act\u00a0 health exchanges come 2014. The federal government did not get many takers. Some of the most closely watched states, including Florida and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,7],"tags":[1477,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}