Tuesday, May 22

Health Exchange Progress (or Lack thereof) By State

Georgia's Health Districts



Blah, blah, blah, June. Blah, blah, blah, Election.  Blah, blah, blah, consumers. Blah, blah, blah, Supreme Court Decision.  

Here is an Interactive Map showing how each state is progressing towards their individual Health Insurance Exchange maps.  Every state has different criteria in how they are designing their Exchanges.  Georgia is still in the beginning stages, like many other states they are waiting for a ruling to come down from the Supreme Court as to the legality of the PPACA and whether or not it will be implemented in part or as a whole, or whether the whole crazy thing will be thrown out altogether.  I'm betting on most of it passing the bar in a 5 to 4 decision.  Then the real fun begins.  Implementation and policy and procedure making.  Thousands and thousands of policy and procedures have already been written and decided upon, and the law isn't even through the courts yet.  You can find more information on what the State of Georgia is doing Here and read the whole preliminary report put out by the Georgia Health Insurance Exchange Advisory Committee here.  Lots of political maneuvering going on even at this stage.  And I'll summarize the report like this... we haven't made any decisions yet.

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