Hi! The Goal! The Plan! & Fair Use!

Hi. This is my first post. My goal is to try to bring together all of the different news coming out from the various states concerning the Health Care Exchanges to be implemented through the PPACA. Obviously with 50 states and exchanges this will not be fully comprehensive. Readers (other than myself) can submit any link and it will be published as soon as humanly possible. This is more of an academic exercise. I am currently in the SLU Law Health program and tracking these changes intersects my two current interests of politics and policy implementation. This site is not intended to be a political blog. Rather it is trying to be informative and link to local news stories covering important market developments. The Health Care Exchanges can be a innovative market based attempt to bring insurance costs down for consumers and try to bend the overall costs of health care downward. Documenting and tracking the various ways each State handles this program will allow for quicker comparisons and more knowledge about how policy choices affect consumers. Each post will be cross-indexed by State name so that previous posts concerning those States can be quickly brought up for comparison. Hopefully this goes well and is useful to someone other than yours truly.

The use of these articles is for news and academic purposes only. No competition is intended with any source. Every source will have a link to the original article and include a thank you, 'hat tip' to that source.

Each posting will limit excerpts to a limited selection to get the general gist of the news.

All use of copyrighted material is viable under fair use provisions.

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/index.html

Local newspapers and reporters are only getting more important as our world is becoming more connected and this blog would not be possible without their work.

Thanks!