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State Health Insurance Exchanges: Progress and Challenges
Author(s) -
Collins Sara R.,
Garber Tracy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.131
Subject(s) - subsidy , health insurance , business , health plan , plan (archaeology) , state (computer science) , patient protection and affordable care act , health care , public relations , law , political science , archaeology , algorithm , computer science , history
By 2014, each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia will have a new health insurance exchange, or marketplace, established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. These exchanges are the centerpiece of the reform law: they will be the main portals where people who do not have health insurance coverage through their jobs and small businesses will go, either in person or online, to find a health plan and to learn about and apply for federal subsidies. The most immediate challenge facing all fifty‐one exchanges is fulfilling their most basic role: ensuring that all who are eligible to enroll in qualified health plans and to receive federal subsidies in fact enroll .

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