New State Insurance Exchanges Should Follow The Example Of Massachusetts By Simplifying Choices Among Health Plans.
Although the Affordable Care Act requires states to establish health insurance exchanges, states have considerable discretion in the exchanges' design and in the range of products offered.We argue for a more activist approach, based on the Massachusetts experience, which found that consumers want th...
| Publicado en: | Health Affairs Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 982 - 990 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Health Affairs Publishing, LLC
May2012
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