Quick Fact: Ohio and the ACA -- Another Example of Republican Pettiness

My home state of Ohio has refused to set up a marketplace where Ohio's uninsured can shop for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, opting instead to let the federal government run the ACA marketplace there beginning on October 1.  

Ohio will not be staying out of the ACA business completely however.  The Republican dominated legislature has approved a bill that will give them regulatory authority over the federal workers, (known as navigators), who will be in Ohio to fill in the void left by Republican Governor John Kasich's anti-ACA decision. The navigators are trained to assist people having difficulty understanding the available programs and to help them decide which plan is best for themselves or their family.  Part of Ohio's new law forbids federal navigators from offering comparisons between different insurance plans.

So Ohio has decided it won't help its own citizens and now wants to make sure nobody else helps them either.  It's pettiness on steroids--a Republican specialty.