How Health Insurance Exchange Fit into Health Care Reform

insurance companies, and their competing plans. Health insurance exchanges will provide easy access to compare benefit levels, included and excluded services, network restrictions, and premium costs. A consumer will not have to go to each different company’s web site, but will instead find all of the information available on health insurance exchanges. Of course, that is what insurance brokers do right now, but many people do not know they can use insurance brokers to provide all of this information, plus excellent customer service. Health insurance exchanges in the future will serve the same function as an insurance broker does now.

Because many people will use health insurance exchanges to find a health insurance policy, they may allow for quantity group discounts on their policies, which will mean more leverage and buying power for the consumer. When health insurance exchanges promote competition among companies, more consumer power, lower prices, higher quality, and better service is often a result. This in turn will result in more individuals purchasing health insurance plans through health insurance exchanges, and a productive cycle of customer service and better health care will take place.

At this time, health insurance exchange has not been fully formed and is not fully