Group Wants Continued Resistance To Health Law

A group of conservative organizations says the North Dakota Legislature should continue its resistance to the federal health care law.

 

 

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A group of conservative organizations says the North Dakota Legislature should continue its resistance to the federal health care law.

They say North Dakota should not take a role in organizing the health benefit exchanges included in the law.

The exchanges are meant to offer subsidized health insurance to people who don't have coverage.

North Dakota Policy Council director Brett Narloch says it doesn't make sense to have North Dakota taxpayers pay for operating the health exchange, because the state won't control how it is run.

The federal law says states may set up their own health exchanges.

If they don't the federal government will do the job.

Last November the North Dakota House overwhelmingly rejected a bill to allow the state to establish its own exchange.

 

AP

   

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