The writer of this section of the healthcare law wrote exactly what he intended and he will tell you as much.
He wrote it to bribe the states into creating their own exchanges and did not believe for a moment they wouldn’t do it. He was wrong.
The reason the “glitch” was put in was to cost shift enough of the cost of ObamaCare to the States to allow the CBO to certify that 10 year cost of Obamacare to the Federal Government was “only” One Trillion Dollars.
Any more than One Trillion and ObamaCare would not have passed.
Spot ON.
Bump