WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's long-anticipated launch Tuesday of new insurance exchanges to provide health care to millions of uninsured Americans is coming under the cloud of a government shutdown that began the same day.
The exchanges are starting up just as most of the federal government is shutting down, left unfunded by a Congress that's still bitterly divided about whether to discard Obama's health care law altogether.
The president planned to address both developments from the Rose Garden Tuesday afternoon, shortly after meeting privately with people who plan to purchase insurance through the exchanges.
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