Lawmakers need to take a second look at how to put ObamaCare into place in New York now that the Supreme Court has upheld the controversial law, the state Senate’s Republican health- care watchdog said yesterday.
Gov. Cuomo signed an executive order in April creating a statewide insurance exchange aimed at making medical care more affordable for individuals and small businesses — a key provision of ObamaCare.
Cuomo took the extraordinary step after the Republican-run Senate balked at passing legislation to do so.
But Senate Health Committee chairman Kemp Hannon (R-Nassau) yesterday said legislators now need to review whether Cuomo’s executive order is legal.
“It has to be revisited. I think [the exchange] needs the force of law,” Hannon told The Post, referring to legislative action.
Cuomo insisted he is on firm legal ground and does not need legislative approval to operate the exchange, expected to be up and running by 2014. Separate legislation would have created a separate public entity to run it.