UPDATED 17:44 PM EST, December 13, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — Friday is decision day for states to notify Washington if they will run their own insurance markets under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
A check by The Associated Press finds them divided.
Nineteen states have turned down the administration's invitation to set up health insurance exchanges, which will start serving millions of uninsured Americans in less than a year.
That leaves the feds with the huge task of doing it for them, one of the challenges that will define Obama's second term.
