I'll admit I still get a little homesick. Even after 15 years of living in Colorado I miss my home state of Missouri from time to time.

I grew up in Kansas City, and, yes, we boast a lot more than just decades of unprecedented sports futility. We also have our jazz and blues, barbecue and, oh yeah, fountains. We have a lot of fountains.

But what Missourians don't have is much information about the health exchanges set to start enrolling in just eight short weeks. That's because Show-Me State voters not only thumbed their noses at Obamacare by refusing to set up its own state exchange, they went a step further by preventing (by law!) state and local officials from even working with the federal exchange. Talk about shedding your historical image as a bellwether state…

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