June 30, 2012 7:41AM 

# Maryland’s, Um, Enthusiasm for an ObamaCare Exchange 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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*The Washington Post* [reports](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/states-under-the-gun-to-implement-the-new-health-care-law/2012/06/29/gJQAfr0ZCW_story.html), “Few states have been as enthusiastic about the Affordable Care Act as Maryland.” For example, Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown (D):

> We regulate markets. We have never created markets…
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> I’m confident we will be successful, but it doesn’t come without a healthy dose of concern that when this thing goes live, it will do what it is intended to do.

Odd way to express enthusiasm, really.

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