Candidate Holt: Legislature needs to work on health-care exchange

The Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is a victory for all Arizonans and all Americans.

The individual provisions of Obamacare will continue to be implemented for the benefit of everyone. No one will be denied health coverage or charged a high premium due to a pre-existing condition. Young adults will be able to stay on their parents’ health plans until age 26.

Millions of uninsured people, for whom all the rest of us pay, will now be covered.

Premiums for middle-income families will be kept affordable.

I support Obamacare as a strong beginning for health care reform. It is now imperative that the Arizona Legislature move forward, in the interest of our business environment, with its responsibility to establish the Arizona health-care exchange.

Engaging in partisan politics rather than consensus-building has become too expensive for Arizona businesses and families.