{"id":3457,"date":"2012-01-05T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2012-01-11T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:21:49","slug":"at-ap-preview-split-views-of-state-health-insurance-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/05\/at-ap-preview-split-views-of-state-health-insurance-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"At AP Preview, Split Views of State Health Insurance Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3468\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Idaho Department of Insurance Director Bill Deal speaks at this morning's AP Legislative Preview.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/1-5-Bill-Deal.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3468\" title=\"1-5 Bill Deal\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/1-5-Bill-Deal-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/1-5-Bill-Deal-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/1-5-Bill-Deal-620x454.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/1-5-Bill-Deal-220x161.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/1-5-Bill-Deal.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Molly Messick \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idaho Department of Insurance Director Bill Deal speaks at this morning&#39;s AP Legislative Preview.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In order for Idaho to pursue a state-run exchange, the Legislature must sign off this session on spending federal grant dollars. \u00a0Idaho Department of Insurance Director Bill Deal, Rep. Vito Barbieri (R-Dalton Gardens) and the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry&#8217;s Alex LaBeau <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/05\/liveblog-legislative-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">presented their views<\/a> of the exchange this morning, offering a preview of the <a title=\"Health Insurance Exchange Will Be A Major Debate in Upcoming Session\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/26\/health-insurance-exchange-will-be-a-major-debate-in-upcoming-session\/\">health insurance exchange debate<\/a> that&#8217;s likely to dominate the upcoming session.<\/p>\n<p>The state Department of Insurance is moving forward with plans for a state-run exchange, operating on the assumption that an upcoming Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act will not affect the health exchange component of the law.\u00a0 The department&#8217;s most recent draft bill is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/282194-idaho-health-insurance-exchange-draft-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Rep. Barbieri says lawmakers should await the Supreme Court decision and says the idea of a state-controlled exchange is &#8220;vacuous&#8221; because a state-controlled exchange will operate under federal mandates.\u00a0 &#8220;Idaho should reject the federal grants and should reject the idea of a publicly-created health care exchange, and allow the private sector to deal with it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>LaBeau says IACI favors a state exchange on pragmatic grounds.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s better to have a citizen in a private insurance system than on the public dole,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 He also says quality assurance and citizen complaints would be handled federally under a federal exchange, and that might not be best for Idahoans.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;d rather deal with Director Deal than with HHS,&#8221; LaBeau said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order for Idaho to pursue a state-run exchange, the Legislature must sign off this session on spending federal grant dollars. \u00a0Idaho Department of Insurance Director Bill Deal, Rep. Vito Barbieri (R-Dalton Gardens) and the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry&#8217;s Alex LaBeau presented their views of the exchange this morning, offering a preview of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":3468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121,15],"tags":[235,119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}