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Change health insurance exchange?

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Would a state health insurance exchange by any other name sound as sweet?

That's just one of the puzzlers the folks charged with readying the state-based marketplaces have been wrestling with since President Barack Obama's landmark health care reform law survived its U.S. Supreme Court challenge last summer.

The exchanges -- which will meant to be easy-to-use online portals to affordable health insurance plans primarily for small businesses, the self-employed and those ineligible for Medicaid and Medicare -- are scheduled to open in January 2014, with early enrollment expected to begin in October.

Only about a third of U.S. states have submitted plans to run their own exchanges; the rest will be run either by or in partnership with the federal government. The Obama administration has just give... http://the-insurance.ucoz.com/news/health_insurance_exchange/2013-06-04-2916