“Health insurance exchanges … are the prime example of how partisan politics can effectively inhibit health reform and the information technology underpinning it,” she said. Ms. Mosquera said the success of healthcare reform is in part dependent on health insurance exchanges, and the backlash started almost immediately after President Obama signed PPACA in March 2010.
Some states, such as Arizona, Maryland and California, are taking on the policy, political and economic work necessary to establish their exchanges. Other states, like Kansas, have refused to start implementation of a health insurance exchange, while others, such as Wisconsin and Iowa, are waiting until the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling on healthcare reform in June.
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