Healthcare.gov — real info on new healthcare options

For basics, look at Understand the new law.

Also, check out the Health Insurance Finder.

The site includes:

• Data for more than 1,000 insurance
  carriers  and 5,561 open products (2,030 in the individual health
  insurance market and 3,531 in the small employer health insurance
  market)
• Information on every Medicaid and
  Children’s Health Insurance Program in the country
• Information on the Pre-Existing Condition Plan
  in every state.
• An insurance finder: Answer a few basic questions,
  and it automatically sorts through a huge
  catalog of public and private coverage options to help you identify the
  ones
  that are right for you.   

healthcare.gov
makes it easy for you to compare plans from different companies, which
means you can choose the better/cheaper plan, which means those
companies gotta compete for your business.

It
also means more competition for the business from small businesses,
since there’s not need to rely on information from one agent.

The folks at healthcare.gov have also built in tools for your feedback, so they can make the site more effective. Please use ’em!

Overall, the deal is better customer service from government, and better return for taxpayer dollars — pretty good!