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Madison - Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court leaves Wisconsin without a plan for setting up a key insurance marketplace called for under the federal health care law, and Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he would not move to create one anytime soon.
The ruling also had far-reaching effects for state programs that provide health care for the needy, such as BadgerCare Plus. The decision allows states the possibility of more federal money under the law but weakens the leverage that the federal government has to force expansions of the programs.
The plans for the insurance marketplace, called an exchange, are due to the federal government in January 2013, and Gov. Scott Walker's administration had announced late last year that it was stopping the work putting together such a plan. Walker also turned down $38 million in federal money that could have gone to implementing the federal health care law in Wisconsin.
High court decision will affect state health programs - JSOnline