Health Insurance Exchange
A Google search for "health insurance" brings eHealthInsurance.com as one of the top results — one reason, eHealth executives say, that state exchanges should follow the federal government in allowing consumers to enroll in subsidized health plans through private web exchanges like eHealthInsurance.
Colorado HealthOP, the state's consumer operated and oriented plan (CO-OP), has signed an agreement with the broker network Warner Pacific to market its health plans, in the first relationship between agents and state health cooperatives.
CMS's Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) has outlined the roles for traditional insurance brokers and web-based brokers assisting customers in public exchanges.
As insurance exchanges, subsidies for low-income earners and a raft of health and insurance regulations get underway, the U.S. could learn from similar reforms and programs enacted in Switzerland and the Netherlands — even as those countries still have problems to sort out, a Health Affairs study suggests.
Aetna posted first quarter 2013 earnings of $495 million or $1.50 per share -- a 12 percent year over year increase -- as membership continues to grow and is expected to reach 18.4 million by year's end.
Vermont health officials have a challenging task explaining to consumers the details and benefits of the state health insurance exchange without being able to say much about how insurance and healthcare will (or will not) change in 2017, when the state is set to transition to a single payer system.
The Oregon House has unanimously passed a bill that tries to take a step towards limiting Medicaid "churn" 
CCIIO is trying to clear any confusion on navigators, in-person assistors, application counselors and agents and brokers; small government advocates are making continued arguments against state HIXs; and California gets set to hire 500 for a call center.
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe has signed a new law expanding Medicaid eligibility through the state's federal-partnership health insurance exchange 
Connecticut's health insurance exchange, Access Health CT, has selected HealthPass and bswift to provide services and technology for a choice of health insurance options to small businesses throughout the state.
A study conducted by Harvard researchers on the insurance purchased through the state insurance exchange, the Commonwealth Connector, showed that some families experienced high levels of financial burden and higher-than-expected costs.
After rejecting the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, Florida Republican lawmakers have proposed what they call a market-based program for covering the uninsured that's entirely state-funded, prompting criticism from Democrats, progressive advocates and even the Republican governor, Rick Scott.
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