Examiner.com reports the House Energy and Commerce Committeewill vote today on the recommendation of its subcommittee toprevent the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) fromcontinuing to grant money to states to work on their own healthexchanges.

The subcommittee recently approved a group of bills, one ofwhich involved the defunding of the establishment andimplementation of state-run health insurance exchanges.

The exchanges, considered an important part of the AffordableCare Act of 2010 (ACA), have generated different reactions from individual states, which areresponsible for setting them up. Though many states havemoved forward to implement the exchanges, others have delayedimplementation.

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