The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires states to either develop their own state insurance exchange, partner with other states or hand over their state insurance exchange to the federal government to run.  States are required to demonstrate to HHS they have a viable plan in place and making progress towards developing their own exchange before January 1, 2013 or risk having the federal government take control.

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