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  • NPR Twitter chat on exchanges at noon (#healthexchange)

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      November 15, 2012 at 7:00 am
      Austin Frakt

    Join @afrakt @jrovner & @cprwhitney for a Twitter chat about health exchanges Thurs. at noon ET #healthexchange

    — Scott Hensley (@scotthensley) November 15, 2012

    Resources:

    • Primer from KFF: Establishing Health Insurance Exchanges:  An Overview of State Efforts (PDF)
    • Map from statehealthfacts.org: State efforts on establishing exchanges, as of yesterday
    • Details from NASI: Designing an Exchange (PDF)
    • A Health Affairs piece on Colorado’s bi-partisan exchange:  Colorado’s Health Insurance Exchange
    • A recent article on Colorado by Eric Whitney: Colorado’s Health Exchange in Jeopardy
    • Commonwealth Fund resurces: State Health Insurance Exchange Laws

    For more, see the comments.

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    • by Lee Goldberg on November 15th, 2012 at 12:20

      Thanks for the twitter discussion. Here’s another resource: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities also has a great set of maps, charts showing where various states are in their decisionmaking and in using federal resources. Available at http://preview.tinyurl.com/awdf2x5.

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