BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has applied for millions of dollars in federal funding to establish a health insurance exchange.

But plans to spend the money will still need approval from the Republican-dominated Idaho Legislature, where lawmaker hatred of the 2010 health care overhaul doomed a previous effort to allocate federal money toward helping set up a statewide exchange.

States must establish insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

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