AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A report that outlines an important component of health insurance reform in Maine, a health care exchange where people can shop for policies, was met with expressions of frustration by Democrats as it was presented Monday to a legislative committee.
"I'm disappointed," Sen. Joseph Brannigan, D-Portland, said before he and other members of the Insurance and Financial Services Committee received the report. "It just doesn't seem friendly and inviting as a marketplace for businesses and people shopping for insurance."
The federal health insurance overhaul, or Affordable Care Act, requires states to set up nonprofit exchanges, which must be self-sustaining by 2015. The report recommending ways to structure Maine's exchange was prepared by a nine-member advisory panel created by the Legislature earlier this year.
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