UnObamacare; Utah's Health-Care Reform  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8786 (May 2012), page 44-46.
Topik: Politics; Health Care Policy; Futures Exchanges; Web Portals; Health Care

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Gary Herbert, the governor of Utah, loathes everything about Barack Obama's health-care reforms, not least, he says, the way "Obama has come along and spoiled the name 'exchange'." After all, Utah conceived its own version of health reform, called the Utah Health Exchange, long before Barack Obama signed his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010. Utah's reform is "market-based", says Mr Herbert, whereas "Obamacare" is a big-government monstrosity. But it too relies on exchanges, so now the word is tainted. Republican governors in New Mexico and New Jersey have even vetoed attempts by their legislatures to build health-care exchanges. For Utah this means that its reform needs a new brand name. The history of the Utah Health Exchange is a reminder of the bizarre, tangled genealogies of America's various health-care reforms. So the Utah Health Exchange is decidedly not Romneycare or Obamacare. But what is it? At first glimpse, it is a snazzy web portal where four of Utah's five largest health insurance companies offer about 140 plans to about 6,600 employees of 285 small businesses.

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