99 Bottles of Aspirin on the Wall

It’s hard to understate the enormity of the task at hand for the Obama administration. It will be orchestrating the largest expansion of private health insurance in the country’s history. That means there’s a huge amount of work to be done over the next few months. There are at least 99 things that need to happen between now and October

Here they are:

1. Health and Human Services must certify that 17 states will be able to launch their own marketplaces. While these states currently have conditional approval, none have the final go ahead to launch their exchange.

2. Washington State must launch a health insurance exchange

3. Oregon must launch a health insurance exchange

4. California must launch a health insurance exchange

5. Idaho must launch a health insurance exchange

6. Hawaii must launch a health insurance exchange

7. Colorado must launch a health insurance exchange

8. Minnesota must launch a health insurance exchange

9. Kentucky must launch a health insurance exchange

10. Exchange list interruption: The federal government likely needs to work on the fact that 42 percent of Americans don’t know that the health-care law is a law at all.

Washington Post