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Article: For exchange students; Massachusetts' "Connector' offers lessons in debate over insurance exchange.(News)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- August 17, 2009
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Byline: Rebecca Vesely
Answering questions during a webcast earlier this month, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to clear up some confusion about how the Obama administration is proposing to reform healthcare. Would consumers continue to have health insurance choices under the proposed system?
"No one will be forced into any plan, Sebelius responded. "A new health insurance exchange will have consumers choosing options.
Calling it a "new marketplace and a "shopping market, Sebelius said the health insurance exchange would ensure that people have more options of health plans. "In many parts of the country, consumers have only one choice ...