Friday, December 14, 2012

US faces task of running dozens of health exchanges

A patient has her knee examined by Dr. Narang at University of Chicago Medicine Urgent Care Clinic in ChicagoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fourteen U.S. states and the District of Columbia so far have told the federal government they plan to operate healthcare exchanges under President Barack Obama's reform law, leaving Washington with the daunting task of creating online marketplaces for at least two-thirds of the country. On the eve of a federal deadline for states to say whether they will run their own exchanges, a top U.S. healthcare policy official told lawmakers that the exchanges will start enrolling eligible families starting on October 1, 2013. ...


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