Wyoming Governor Matt Mead says the state won't meet a pending deadline to specify whether or not the state intends to establish a health insurance exchange.
Mead is a longtime critic of the Federal Affordable Care Act.
The act specifies that states must tell the federal government by next January whether they will set up their own health care exchange, or let the federal government do it.
Mead says Wyoming likely won't decide how to proceed until the Legislature meets early next year.
"I don't think it's reasonable for the federal government to say we've got to make very big decisions that can impact our state and impact the quality of our health delivery system in Wyoming."
The online exchange would offer the public one-stop shopping for health insurance.
