An uncertain future due to an expected U.S. Supreme Court review of health reform hasn’t stopped the administration from giving nearly half a billion dollars in U.S. taxpayer money to states to enact a key part of the new law.
However, nearly half the states, 23 so far, have not established health insurance exchanges as mandated under health reform, and may blow past their federal deadlines to enact them. Reform experts caution that the states could spoil a smooth, timely roll-out of health reform.
