Count the region’s U.S. Health and Human Services director among those wondering when Ohio will make a decision on whether it’s going to operate its own health insurance exchange under federal health reform.
Kenneth Munson, HHS Region V director over six states including Ohio, was in town this week for speaking engagements including the Columbus nonprofit Health Policy Institute of Ohio and Ohio Hospital Association and stopped atColumbus Business First, sister paper to the Dayton Business Journal.
The state’s employers, insurers and brokers have been getting antsy about whether Ohio will set up its own exchange where individuals and small businesses can compare coverage and premiums. The shopping sites go live in 2014, but if a state has not made substantial progress toward setting one up by next January, it will get subsumed into the federally run mega-exchange.
Democrats in the General Assembly have unsuccessfully tried to goose the processbut Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, also the Department of Insurance director, said the state is still mulling its options.
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