Rhode Island- SBA Summit Focuses on Health Care Exchange

The state should adopt into law provisions for establishment of a health care exchange ... according to two committees that prepared recommendations for the General Assembly Friday morning at the U.S. Small Business Administration Rhode Island Economic Summit.

About 150 small business owners and advocates attended the six-hour summit at the Johnson & Wales Culinary Archives and Museum, including state officials and lawmakers.

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Ted Almon, president and CEO of Claflin Company in Warwick, who chaired the 11-member health care standing committee, said his group for the second year in a row is urging the legislature to formally incorporate into state law the terms of Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee’s executive order for creation of a health care exchange.

The executive order remains in effect only as long as Chafee is in office, Almon noted, and committee members decided it is important that the health care exchange be made part of state law to protect its future existence.

http://www.pbn.com/SBA-summit-focuses-on-casinos-health-care-exchange,64891Hat tip: Providence Business News