the exchangeted board, there were some important decisions made. the governor and lieutenant governor had a serious of 20 or so public meetings around the state area and they had hundreds of comments from the public. they established a broad consensus that it made sense for maryland to do state-based exchange. the logic behind that was that maryland could control its own destiny and there were some unique aspects to maryland system that the exchange could be sensitive to if it were state-based. it was interesting to me, i was on a few national panels, i would sit next to people with some degree of understatement, we are not huge fans of the affordable care act, from other states. they would say how they hated it. i would say that we were supportive of it. there is an irony, i may be the only one on the panel who are supportive, but we are going our own way. else's the federal government exchange in the area. pick your words. our own way.n we see the affordable care act in maryland, and the analogy that i use most commonly is that it is a set of too