>Christie urges go-slow approach on health reform
Gov. Chris Christie appears unlikely to sign a bill narrowly approved this month by Democratic lawmakers that would establish a state health insurance exchange, a key part of national health-care reform designed to go into effect in 2014.
At his town-hall meeting in Kearny last week, Christie reiterated that he won’t expend state funds to implement federal health-care reforms in New Jersey unless it is deemed constitutional. The bill would pay five public members of the exchange’s board $50,000 each, and the board would then hire and pay an executive director to head a newly created exchange. (Symons, Gannett)
