And when I say “move forward,” what I really mean is full steam ahead.  Yesterday the State announced that it had received an additional $95 million in federal funds to continue to build up New York’s forthcoming Health Insurance Exchange.  This money will primarily be used to finance a lot of of the back-end operations, including the IT system and databases.

The State applied for this funding back at the end of June – you can click here to read the state’s full project narrative for these funds.