Associated Press
Aug. 6, 2012
HHS contractors are working feverishly to design and test computer systems that would make the federal exchange come alive. It's a top priority for the administration, which is guarding the details closely. Estimated price tag: at least $860 million.
The government is "on track in moving aggressively to set up this market structure," Mike Hash, the HHS official overseeing the effort, told industry representatives, state officials and public policy experts at a recent Bipartisan Policy Center conference. "We're on track ... to go live in the fall of 2013."
"I think the pressure is on them to deliver, and I fully expect they will," said Jon Kingsdale, who was the founding director of the nation's first health insurance exchange, created under then-Gov. Romney's health care overhaul in Massachusetts.
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