IL: Illinois, federal government in race to prepare for health care exchanges

Chicago Tribune: For the nearly 2 million Illinois residents without health insurance, Oct. 1 has been hailed as the start of a new era.

That's the day when they and millions of other Americans have been told they can start signing up for new health insurance plans, many subsidized by the federal government, a key pillar of President Barack Obama's landmark 2010 health care law.

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