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Plan finalized for state health pools

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

 |  Associated Press  

  March 13, 2012

The Obama administration Monday finalized an ambitious blueprint for new state-based health insurance markets that will offer consumers one-stop shopping along the lines of amazon.com. The rule comes just two weeks before the Supreme Court takes up a challenge to the constitutionality of the law in a case brought by states. Many governors and legislators are on the sidelines awaiting the outcome, even as time is running out to act.

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