RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Whether North Carolina makes health insurance as easy for individuals and small businesses to shop for as a plane ticket on a travel website could be left up to an oversight board on which business interests outnumber consumer advocates.
The House Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday approved a rewrite of a proposal to create the state's health benefit exchange, the marketplace designed to offer affordable private health plans to those who now have the hardest time finding coverage.
States must create their own health benefit exchanges by 2014 or the federal government will do it for them under terms of the Obama administration's health care overhaul law passed a year ago.
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