More Americans than predicted may decide to flock to the new public exchanges for health coverage come 2014.
Estimates from 19 states operating health insurance exchanges show that at least 8.5 million consumers plan to buy insurance through exchanges in those states, a prediction far outpacing what the Congressional Budget Office has projected, according to a new USA Today survey reported Tuesday.
CBO analysts predicted that there would be 7 million new participants in exchanges across all 50 states.
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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.
