With the launch of the HealthCare.Gov website, the White House rolled out, in record time, the platform that will likely power the new health insurance exchanges promised in 2014. In the interim, HealthCare.Gov will provide Americans with important new health insurance information, and starting October 1st, will showcase a pre-2014 exchange of sorts. HealthCare.Gov as currently rolled out provides some impressive first steps in making health insurance accessible to many of those currently uninsured.

HealthCare.Gov provides:

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