America's Health Insurance Plans is suggesting that the boards of the health insurance exchanges now under construction really ought to include health insurance company executives and other insurance experts.

Daniel Durham, an executive vice president at AHIP, Washington, and Colleen Gallaher, a vice president at AHIP, have offered that advice in a health insurance exchange program comment letter.

Members of Congress put exchanges in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) in an effort to help individuals and small groups find affordable, easy-to-compare health coverage.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.