Can you believe that in 2011, THIS is what the Alabama GOP was saying about the ACA and Health Insurance Exchange?---- Alabama: Governor Robert Bentley (R), a physician, issued an Executive Order that created the Alabama Health Insurance Exchange Study Commission on June 2, 2011. The Commission held five meetings and completed its report with recommendations on December 1, 2011. It recommended that Alabama establish its own Exchange called the “Alabama Health Insurance Marketplace,” which is to be governed by a quasi-public authority. Alabama received an Exchange establishment grant of $8.6 million on November 29 from HHS. The State also is participating in a technical assistance program run by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The legislature, which meets in February, is expected to take up legislation to establish an Exchange. 2 What They Are Saying in Alabama: “My inclination is to get something passed before this next regular session exits, so we have something in place. If we fail to do anything in 2012 session, that could be running up a white flag to the feds, saying Yall take over. I cant see that happening.” State Rep. Jim McClendon (R), Co-Chairman of the Alabama Health Insurance Exchange Study Commission, January 3, 2012 “I still believe even if that bill had never been passed that this was something that we needed to look at…What we’re trying to do here is set up an Alabama health insurance exchange so people in the state, regardless of where you are in life – whether you are a young mother or whether you are a college student or whether you are an elderly person with a preexisting disease – you will be able to purchase insurance.” Governor Robert Bentley (R), September 16, 2011 But after Romney lost in Nov. 2012, National GOP Hierarchy told all GOP Governors to adopt a NEW blockage game plan, and right before the GOP winter meeting, Gov. Bentley announced he had changed his mind, and Alabama would have neither Medicaid Expansion, or a State insurance Exchange. This quote from this PDF from January 2012: whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/01-18-12_exchange_report.pdf
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