Insurance exchanges are a key part of the federal effort to reform health care, but many employers still don’t understand how they work.
“It’s really a vague, fuzzy notion for most people,” said Anne Ladd, chief executive of the Wyoming Business Coalition on Health.
Ladd wants to change that. She believes the more business owners know about exchanges, the more they’ll like them. That support, in turn, could convince reluctant lawmakers to push forward with a program in Wyoming.
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A legislative committee has spent more than a year exploring models for a Wyoming exchange. But lawmakers won’t make a final decision on the program until next year - after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the federal health reform law.
That won’t leave the state much time to start an exchange before the January 2014 deadline, Ladd said.
Exchanges were popularized by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. But they are mostly associated with President Barack Obama, who is unpopular in Wyoming.
Because of that connection, some people immediately dismiss the value of exchanges. Opinions change, however, when they learn more about the concept, Ladd said.
“The federal legislation has a few hidden gems in there,” she said.
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