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• "We don't intend to implement any part of this legislation this year," Daugaard said. "My hope is the new people in Washington will repeal this legislation. It's something I don't believe this nation can afford, and I don't believe it's something the state can afford."
• Daugaard said state officials will study the law and act to "minimize the damage" the law could do to the state's health care and insurance industries.
• For the time being, Daugaard said he would not establish insurance exchanges that will allow individuals and small businesses to purchase health insurance that the federal law mandates. South Dakota has received $5.8 million from the federal government to create the insurance pools.
• We believe the governor is making a mistake by not creating the health insurance exchanges that are required by the law and delaying action until after the November election.
• The presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he would repeal the federal health care law if he is elected president, and the Republican Governors Association has urged its members, including Daugaard, to delay implementing the law.
• Our biggest complaint about the law is how partisan the debate over the issue of health care has become since the law's passage. Congress passed the Affordable Care Act without a single Republican vote, largely because Democrats shut their GOP colleagues out of creating the legislation.
• The recent Supreme Court decision was based on a challenge that included 26 states, including South Dakota, headed by Republican governors and attorneys general.
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