Writing in the Pottstown Mercury, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine has outlined why the Corbett administration chose not to develop the health insurance exchange that is one of the centerpieces of the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
Mr. Consedine’s explanation mirrors that offered last month by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett:  the federal government did not provide enough information and guidance to enable the state to develop its own exchange.  (Go here for a summary of Governor Corbett’s op-ed piece and a direct link to that piece.)
As a result of this decision, Pennsylvania will use a health insurance exchange developed for it by the federal government.
Read Mr. Consedine’s guest column in the Pottstown Mercury here.