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I found that the officer actually handled the situation correctly and was very patient during the process. The man with the camera is obviously agitated and eventually begins directing foul language toward the officer, which was uncalled for.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — With a looming deadline approaching, insurers are making a last-ditch plea to Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter for a nonprofit, state-based insurance exchange in Idaho as part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. On Tuesday, Idaho's advisers said the state likely has too little time — and too much work still to complete — to establish a state-run exchange by 2014.

The state has applied for millions of dollars in federal funding to establish a health insurance exchange. But plans to spend the money will still need approval from the Republican-dominated Idaho Legislature, where lawmaker hatred of the 2010 health care overhaul doomed a previous effort to allocate federal money toward helping set up a statewide exchange...

Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has decided not to pass up millions of federal dollars to help set up health insurance exchanges in Idaho because dismissing the money could allow Washington to impose a plan that may not work for Idaho.  In a statement Tuesday, Otter said it was a difficult choice to allow state agencies to apply for the federal grant funding but it was also preferable to the alt

Idaho must have an "insurance exchange" as mandated by the Obamacare law and it must be set up by January of 2014.  State officials say if we don't make the deadline the federal government will set up the exchange for us and perhaps put 2500 insurance agents out of business...