Frances McMorris - Former editor-in-chief

Frances McMorris is a former editor-in-chief of On Wall Street.

Exchange success not determined by red or blue state color

Contrary to expectations, the latest findings from healthcare researcher Decision Resources Group reveal that several of the state-based health insurance exchanges that were expected to perform the best are performing quite poorly, while some of the exchanges in Republican-dominated states openly hostile to the Affordable Care Act have fared surprisingly well to date.

Federal exchanges said to induce consumers to overspend on health coverage

Limitations with how the federally-run health insurance exchanges present information misleads consumers and induces them to spend many thousands of dollars a year more than necessary on health coverage, according to Consumers Checkbook, a non-profit consumer advocacy organization and web site.