From Michael Cannon at Cato:

“It’s not that they don’t have answers because they’re withholding it from us, it’s that they don’t have answers because they don’t have answers,” [Wisonsin Sec. of Health Dennis] Smith said. “These are critical policy issues, critical technical issues. Again, what are you building if you don’t know who’s eligible? What are you building if you don’t know what the flow is out of the treasury to the health plan?”…”They have a mess on their hands,” Smith said… “You have to fundamentally say, ‘No, that just isn’t working, we have to go back to the drawing board.’ …

Smith also said that none of the states currently setting up exchanges would likely meet federal regulations and that there’s “no such thing as a state-run exchange.”…

Read more: Wisconsin Health Secretary: ‘No Such Thing as a State-Run Exchange’ | Cato @ Liberty.

See also: State Health Insurance Exchanges Will Impose Federal Control, by Twila Brase