BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho received a $20.4 million federal grant for an insurance exchange required by the federal health care overhaul, setting up a fight in the upcoming 2012 Legislature over whether the state should keep the money.

Idaho lawmakers leery of the reforms could still reject this money.

The grant was among 13 awarded Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services totaling nearly $220 million.

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