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Blumberg, Linda and Karen Pollitz. Health Insurance Exchanges: Organizing Health Insurance Marketplaces to Promote Health Reform Goals [1], The Urban Institute, April 2009.
Fronstin, P. and M.N. Ross. Addressing Health Care Market Reform Through an Insurance Exchange: Essential Policy Components, the Public Plan Option, and Other Issues to Consider [2], Employee Benefit Research Institute, Issue Brief No. 330, June 2009.
Jost, Timothy S. Health Insurance Exchanges in Health Care Reform: Legal and Policy Issues [3], The Commonwealth Fund, December 2009.
Lischko, A. et al. The Massachusetts Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector: Structure and Functions [4], The Commonwealth Fund, May 2009.
Lischko, Amy. Drawing Lessons: Different Results from State Health Insurance Exchanges [5], Pioneer Institute, December 2009.
Merlis, M. A Health Insurance Exchange: Prototypes and Design Issues [6], National Health Policy Forum, June 5, 2009.
Fact Sheet: Using a Health-Insurance Exchange to Pool Risk and Protect Enrollees [7], Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 2009.
Explaining Health Care Reform: What Are Health Insurance Exchanges [8], Kaiser Family Foundation, May 2009.
Links:
[1] http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/qsexchangefinal.pdf
[2] http://www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=4289
[3] http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2009/Dec/1364_Jost_hlt_ins_exchanges.pdf
[4] https://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/binary/com.epicentric.contentmanagement.servlet.ContentDeliveryServlet/Health%2520Care%2520Reform/How%2520Insurance%2520Works/Issue_Brief.pdf
[5] http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/pdf/drawing_lessons_pb.pdf
[6] http://www.nhpf.org/library/details.cfm/2742
[7] http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2785
[8] http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7908.pdf