The creation of health insurance Exchanges – marketplaces where consumers will be able to shop for and buy health insurance – is a cornerstone of the health reform law. But when the members of the Health Insurance Exchange Board were announced, consumer advocates expressed dismay for two reasons: first, no consumer advocates were appointed, so slots that, by law, were supposed to go, for example, to someone with experience in dealing with barriers to individual coverage, instead went to people who have no such experience; and second, some of the appointees to the Board have very strong ties to the insurance industry, which certainly has a strong self-interest in many of the decisions the Exchange Board is going to have to make.
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