COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A consumer coalition is urging the state to discuss its plans to inform Ohioans about a key part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.
Open enrollment in new private health insurance markets called exchanges starts a year from Monday with coverage kicking in Jan. 1, 2014. Exchanges are online markets in which individual consumers and small businesses will shop for health insurance among competing private plans.
States face a Nov. 16 deadline to submit plans to the federal government for running an exchange. Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sihk) says he's leaning toward a federally-facilitated exchange.
Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage says Ohio should have people with roots in minority communities and elsewhere explain exchanges.
The Kasich administration says those details have yet to be determined.
