CCIIO Webinar: Background Research for Designing Insurance Exchanges - Data Sources & Modeling Approaches
Lynn Blewett presented on January 25, 2011, during a webinar for states that have received Affordable Care Act insurance exchange planning grants from the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (OCCIO). Dr. Blewett spoke to an audience of state officials about designing an exchange through the use of modeling. She spoke about spreadsheet vs. microsimulation approaches and addressed the identification of key modeling variables along with the appropriate data sources for measuring them.