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Federal Requirements For State Exchanges

August 31, 2011 By Louise Norris

[…] The guidelines that HHS set forth were designed to make sure that state-specific exchanges meet basic minimum standards, while still allowing the states to accomplish many of those standards however they see fit. And although some would criticize HHS for being too restrictive, others have said that the agency did all they could to keep things as simple and flexible as possible. […]

Filed Under: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Exchanges

More On Health Insurance Exchanges

August 8, 2011 By Louise Norris

[…] We need exchanges that are easy to navigate, accessible for people who are not fluent in English, and that provide seamless access to the subsidies that the PPACA provides to help people afford health insurance. I’ve already pointed out that we’re going to have to walk a fine line in terms of keeping things fair for both insureds and insurers, in order to attract as many enrollees and high quality insurers as possible to the exchanges. […]

Filed Under: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Exchanges, Individual/Family Health

The Challenge Of Creating Unbiased Health Insurance Exchanges

August 2, 2011 By Louise Norris

[…] In order to attract high-quality health insurance carriers to the exchanges, we have to make sure that the exchanges represent a business environment that is appealing to carriers. We also have to make their appealing and fair to consumers, in order to attract enough people into the exchanges. To work well, the exchanges will need to have a delicate balance between the interests of consumers, providers, and health insurer carriers, with no one group more heavily favored than another.

Filed Under: Group Health, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Exchanges, Health Insurance Reform, Individual/Family Health, Medigap

Comparison Shopping For Health Insurance

July 28, 2011 By Louise Norris

[…] But in terms of being a comparison-shopping website for health insurance, I’m struck by how much that sounds like the service we’ve been offering our clients for years. The exchanges will function mostly online, which was a transition we made back in 2003 when we established our website and started working with carriers to get online applications for our clients. We realized soon after getting into the health insurance industry that there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to health insurance, and that it didn’t make sense to only represent one or two carriers. […]

Filed Under: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Exchanges

A Good Summary Of The HHS Proposed Regulations For Exchanges

July 21, 2011 By Louise Norris

[…] The proposed regulations from HHS for the exchanges come to 244 pages, but Timothy notes that they are “practical, sensible, and functional” and that HHS tried to simplify things wherever possible, rather than complicate them. For anyone who wants to get the gist of the proposed regulations without reading the 244 pages that HHS released this month, I highly recommend that you check out Timothy’s article. […]

Filed Under: Health Insurance Exchanges, Health Insurance Reform, Individual/Family Health

Biased Language In Employer Health Insurance Survey

June 21, 2011 By Louise Norris

[…] Overall, the survey is very thorough, the questions are mostly objective, and the data obtained from 1300 employers is no doubt a useful barometer of current employer attitudes towards health care reform. But I imagine that if the sentence about assuming that exchanges will make individual health insurance easy and affordable had not been included, the number of employers who said that they plan to drop their group plans might not have been so high. Time will tell.

Filed Under: Group Health, Health Care Goodies, Health Care Reform, Individual/Family Health

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