January 26, 2012 3:29PM 

# ‘We Are Not Deciding between Regulation and Autonomy, We Are Deciding Whether or Not We Want a Puppet Government’ 

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

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That’s how [Charlie Arlinghaus](http://www.jbartlett.org/about-us#staff), president of New Hampshire’s [Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy](http://www.jbartlett.org/), describes the decision confronting states about whether to create an [ObamaCare](https://www.cato.org/bad-medicine/) Exchange in [this op-ed](http://www.jbartlett.org/a-state-run-federal-exchange-is-the-worst-of-both-worlds) for the *New Hampshire Union-Leader*.

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