Kansas returns health insurance exchange grant

REUTERS, 8/9/2011 by Alina Selyukh (Hat tip: Steve)

• Brings returned grants amount to some $90 million
  
• HHS likely would have to set up Kansas exchange

WASHINGTON - Kansas became on Tuesday the second U.S. state to return a large federal grant meant to help it create a prototype health insurance exchange as part of the Obama administration's healthcare overhaul. ✧ Republican Governor Sam Brownback said the state would give back the $31.5 million it received from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to become an early leader, along with six other states, in establishing health insurance exchanges that other local government could use as a model. Read more at Reuters... Read More......