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Brewer Defends Accepting Millions Of Dollars In Federal Grants From The Health Law She Opposes | Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) is defending her decision to accept $29.8 million in federal funding to establish a health insurance exchange from the Affordable Care Act. Brewer opposes the law and is part of a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality, but claimed that she had to apply for the funds in order to prepare the state in case the Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the law. “I believe that Arizona would be far better off to engage in a health exchange that we operate to fit our particular kind of delivery of services,” said Brewer. “I don’t believe that one particular type of exchange is going to bode well for 50 different states. It’s incomprehensible. I do hope we win in court, but Arizona is going to be prepared and ready to go and we want to be in charge.”