The Oregon Legislature is grappling with the role that Oregon’s Health Insurance Exchange will take and how it will be run and governned. A recent article published by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute tries to cut through the stereotypes of two exchanges that are up and running in Massachusetts and Utah. In the Executive Summary the authors write:
To many, the Massachusetts and Utah exchanges represent opposite points on a continuum of what exchanges can provide for consumers and small businesses. Yet the stereotype of Massuchusetts’ exchange as an “active purchaser” and the Utah Exchange as an open market model is, in the words of one observor, “a false sterotype…perpetuated by…a media that likes simple contrasts.”
The authors found that each exchange was much more complicated. You can read the whole paper here (13 pages plus citations)
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