New CSG Brief on Health Insurance Exchanges
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Mar 10th, 2011
New CSG Brief on Health Insurance Exchanges
The Affordable Care Act mandates that states operate insurance exchanges to enable every citizen across the country to purchase or renew health insurance.
The reform legislation provides federal support for "necessary" expenses so states can plan, establish and operate the exchanges beginning in 2014. Although it specifies several conditions that insurance products offered through the exchange must meet, it allows the states great flexibility in determining how they will regulate and how much reform they will introduce for their state insurance market.
A new information brief from the Council on State Governments explains what health insurance exchanges can accomplish, how state Medicaid programs will be involved and what decisions states are facing in 2011 and 2012 related to health insurance exchanges.
Download the full information brief here.
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