State Action to Establish Health Insurance Marketplaces

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State Action to Establish Health Insurance Marketplaces

July 2013 — Use this interactive map to review the status of state action on state health insurance marketplaces, also called exchanges, and view key aspects of state-run marketplaces.

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Health Insurance Marketplace by State

Interact with the map to discover details about state health insurance marketplaces.

Domain	State Approach

*Iowa is responsible for plan management only.
**In Idaho and New Mexico, the federal government will operate the individual market in 2014.
Source: National Conference of State Legislatures, Federal Health Reform: State Legislative Tracking Database; Politico.com; Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute; Commonwealth Fund analysis.

States with laws or executive orders:


Domain	State Approach	Details

Sources

Sabrina Corlette, et al., The Massachusetts and Utah Health Insurance Exchanges: Lessons Learned, Georgetown University, March 2011.
A.G. Raymond, Massachusetts Health Reform: A Five-Year Progress Report,Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts, November 2011.
A.M. Lischko, S.S. Bachman, A. Vangeli, The Massachusetts Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector: Structure and Functions, The Commonwealth Fund, May 2009.
Kaiser Family Foundation, State Exchange Profiles: Massachusetts.
Sara Rosenbaum, Nancy Lopez, Taylor Burke, and Mark Dorley of George Washington University; Sarah Dash, Kevin W. Lucia, Katie Keith, and Christine Monahan of the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms; and Commonwealth Fund analysis.