Governor Sam Brownback makes another move in his fight against the federal health care reform program. KLWN’s Jill Nado has more.
Kansas was supposed to get 31 and a half million dollars from the feds to start a health insurance exchange. It would have been an open marketplace, where competing insurance companies that allow uninsured people and small businesses to band together to get cheaper rates. But Governor Brownback is handing that money back…it’s part of a move by republican governors who hope to block the federal reform program from being implemented. The states have until 2013 to submit plans for their exchanges, or the department of health and human services will step in and do it for them.