I just want to emphasize that from the beginning of this process, obviously a State looking at it without any peers having undertaken the process, without CMS and others having, you know, fully gotten into it yet, you could look at it and it would appear very daunting.
Sarbanes highlights the initial challenges states faced in implementing exchanges without prior examples.
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