Calif. Insurance Exchange Experience Informs Debate
A report prepared for the California HealthCare Foundation outlines major obstacles that contributed to the demise of PacAdvantage, a health insurance exchange in California that launched in 1993 and shut down in 2006. The report found that the exchange's greatest challenge was that it catered to a disproportionate number of high-risk individuals and groups.
CHCF is the publisher of California Healthline.
- "Policymakers Can Learn From California's Failed Insurance Exchange" (Clark, HealthLeaders Media, 8/14).