Slow Thursday Exchange news

We've been talking about the forthcoming Exchanges quite a bit the past few days, and very little of it was to report much progress in their implementation [ed: could that be because there's been precious little "progress" being made?]. Finally, though, some good news (of a sort):

"[HHS Secretary Shecantbeserious] ... [has] given 24 states and the District of Columbia conditional approval either to fully or partially run health insurance exchanges starting in 2014."

Wait, what?

"starting in 2014"

Um, anyone else catch the problem there? Here's a hint: Less than 180 days to go.

So here's a question for the Fair Kathleen: what happens on October 2nd?

Enquiring minds want to know.