Articles from the July 7, 2011 edition

Don C. Brunell, president|Updated Jul 7, 2011

Later this month, state legislators will begin discussions about designing and implementing a health-care exchange. If experience is a guide – and it is – Washington lawmakers should tread very carefully because recent events have shown how perilous such efforts can be. State health-care exchanges, authorized under the federal health-reform law, were originally characterized as virtual open-air markets where health-insurance providers would compete side-by-side so consumers could easily compare coverage and cost. Some sta...