Momentum builds for a National Health Insurance Exchange
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the Sentate Finance Committee has endorsed the idea of creating a National Health Insurance Exchange.
In particular, the committee conceives of the Exchange as an Internet portal that would allow consumers to compare health insurance plans available to them.
Momentum for this approach clearly continues to build — and yet, there are many important questions about this Exchange that remain to be answered. In an effort to to help debate the issues around this Exchange more clearly, we are delighted to sponsor a public domain initiative — effective immediately, we are launching a prototype for the National Health Insurance Exchange on http://www.getinsured.com/nhie.
As you will see from the Exchange — the effort is nascent and our goal is to help understand how the various stakeholders — health insurers, citizens and regulators interact with each other in meaningful ways.
Please do join us in this important effort and contribute your thoughts and ideas.
Chini Krishnan
Posted on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 at 1:19 pm. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below. Your comments will appear immediately, but the author reserves the right to delete innapropriate comments.