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Lawmakers Seek Input on Health Care Law

The Florida Senate has launched a website for public input on the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.

Lawmakers are charged with deciding how to set up a health insurance exchange, a marketplace for people and businesses to choose and buy affordable health coverage.

They also must decide whether to expand Medicaid to more low-income Floridians.

But Representative Matt Hudson, a Naples Republican and vice chair of the House panel on the health care law, said the feds haven’t given the states enough information.

"All those things are yet to be determined. And those are things that, quite frankly, we should not be jumping to do this. I think some of the states that have jumped early, and have jumped on board without knowing that – frankly, I think their legislatures border on malfeasance", said Hudson.

The exchanges will start in 2014. If Florida doesn't set up a state-run exchange, the federal government can step in and run one.