RI: 36 Hours Behind Rhode Island's Health Exchange

Government Technology: The Rhode Island health insurance exchange lives behind an unassuming and unmarked door in the basement of the state department of administration building in Providence. That’s where the operation’s brains are: the staff of twentysomething charged with implementing one of the least understood but most important parts of the Affordable Care Act. At its most basic level, the exchange is intended to be an insurance marketplace, a website where people can shop for health coverage and access federal tax subsidies to help them buy it. The staff in Providence want it to be much more than that, but first, they have to get it ready for launch.

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