GOP-led states warming up to Obamacare

From the South to the heartland, cracks are appearing in the once-solid wall of Republican resistance to President Barack Obama's health care law.

Ahead of a federal deadline Friday for states to declare their intentions, Associated Press reporters interviewed governors and state officials around the country, finding surprising openness to the changes in some cases...

Policy experts in Washington are noticing the shift.

Although the public remains divided about the health care law, the idea of states running the new insurance markets is popular, especially with Republicans and political independents...