But they all agree on one thing: it is now time to weigh in. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has received thousands of comments at the beginning of exchange regulations issued this year, which lay some ground rules for what new market will look like.
Under health reform, each country will have a new health insurance marketplace called
About 24 million Americans will end up buying their health insurance through the exchange of this new, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. If the State does not control its own Exchange, the federal Government will step in and do the job, make sure each country has its own market.
Affordable care Act, passed in March 2010, put some basic guidelines, which detailed the Exchange will be eligible to use the market and type of coverage insurance companies would be required to sell.
But it also left many questions: who will be allowed to sell health insurance in the exchanges? What are the benefits of health plan would cover? And if States don