Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Virginia-Bills to Create Health-Care Exchanges Halted

Legislators and insurance lobbyists urged a House of Delegates committee to approve a bill Tuesday that would create a health-care exchange to comply with federal law, but the panel decided to wait.

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Bill Hazel, Virginia’s secretary of Health and Human Resources, said the federal regulations haven’t been written yet to say how the exchanges should be designed, or what insurance protections they will provide.

“This is clearly an unsettled issue, and … I cannot recommend that we go ahead with an exchange,” Hazel said.
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