Health insurance exchanges in health care reform: legal and policy issues
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- Jost, Timothy Stolzfus. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- New York, NY : Commonwealth Fund, [2009]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Care Reform -- legislation & jurisprudence Health Care Reform -- organization & administration Insurance Coverage -- legislation & jurisprudence Insurance, Health -- legislation & jurisprudence National Health Insurance, United States -- legislation & jurisprudence Cost Control Economic Competition -- legislation & jurisprudence Eligibility Determination Federal Government Policy Making Risk Sharing, Financial -- legislation & jurisprudence State Government Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The two health reform bills pending in Congress represent quite different understandings of what a health insurance exchange is, what it does, how it is organized, and how it functions. How those differences are resolved is likely to determine the extent to which the eventual exchanges accomplish their goals and whether they avoid the difficulties that have afflicted earlier attempts at creating and operating exchanges. This report describes design and function issues raised by exchanges, prior experience with exchanges, the provisions of the pending House and Senate bills that affect exchanges, and policy issues raised by the legislation.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101529506 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101529506