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Nikki Haley Considers Turning Over South Carolina’s Exchange To Insurance Companies | Stephen Largen reports that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) has decided not to “pursue any more grant money from the federal health care overhaul to fund a possible state-run health insurance exchange.” Instead, Tony Keck, her director of the Department of Health and Human Services, is floating the idea of having health insurers fund the new market places: “If a health insurance exchange is going to save everybody so much money, then somebody should be willing to pay for it,” Keck said. “Either the employer should be willing to pay for it because it lowers their cost of benefits, or an individual should be able to pay for it because it lowers their cost of insurance. Or an insurance company should be willing to pay for it because it gets their product out to more people.” What could go wrong?