It seems like a simple idea: create new marketplaces called "exchanges" where consumers can comparison shop for health insurance, sort of like shopping online for a hotel room or airline ticket. Read the Article>

One character in the novel was a milliner who made fashionable hats in a home studio. A second was helping get a neighborhood newspaper off the ground. A third quit her job at Sotheby’s and bet her savings on what she had always wanted to do: open a vintage clothing store. I kept wondering, “Why aren’t these people obsessing about health insurance?” Read the Article>

Critics and supporters of the health reform law have one thing in common: Neither group knows what the most wide-reaching changes of the law look like in the real world. Those changes — to the insurance market, to patient care and to control of Medicare costs — simply don’t exist yet. And if the law’s critics succeed in their efforts to repeal or reshape it, many of these reforms won’t ever exist. Read the Article>

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Ohio’s John Kasich has joined a short list of Republican governors who oppose the national health law but have decided to follow through on one of its key components — creation of a health insurance exchange where small businesses can compare policies.

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Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, a top supporter and adviser of Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney, strenuously backed the core piece of President Barack Obama’s health-care law and urged the states to move forward together in adopting health insurance exchanges. Read the Article>

A new AARP report on state insurance exchanges says consumers will have an easier time comparing health plans if they're not presented with too many options. Read the Article>

California, like most states, is in the process of creating two new health exchanges -- one for insurance and one for information. The two are closely related, somewhat dependent on each other and will have to work well together from birth for either to be successful. Read the Article>

State insurance exchanges are not being set up fast enough to meet the 2014 deadline set by the healthcare law, advocates and policy experts say. Read the Article>

One way or another, President Obama’s Affordable Care Act dominated health care politics in practically every state in the nation this year. Some states fought it, some moved to implement it, and others struggled to bring down Medicaid costs so they could afford it. Some tried to do all three. Read the Article>