Under current law, the exchange rate report and Treasury responses are the last line of defense against currency manipulation for America's manufacturing workers.
So how the health care reform law and the exchanges will affect enrollment over the long run remains to be seen.
MIAMI — As many states prepare to introduce a linchpin of the 2010 health care law — the insurance exchanges designed to make health care more affordable — a handful of others are taking the opposite tack: They are complicating enrollment efforts and limiting information about the new program.
On the other side, lobbyists for Bloomberg L. P., the financial information service, have been telling lawmakers that if the Coble bill becomes law, the stock exchanges could make it impossible for the company to publish complex calculations about stock prices and trends.
(This hearing is famous as the one in which Obamacare consultant Jonathan Gruber was raked over the coals for his ill-considered statements about the law; the Tavenner exchange starts at the 1 29 mark).
The California law says the exchange should choose health plans that "offer the optimal combination of choice, value, quality and service".
Mr. Trutanich argued that state law permits the exchange of marijuana between growers and patients on a nonprofit and noncash basis only.
Mr. Obama and his health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, have promised to give states flexibility in carrying out the new health care law and running the exchanges.
And given the response to Tara Siegel Bernard's Your Money column over the weekend, confusion over the provisions of the law and how the exchanges will work is mounting as millions of consumers begin to focus on the changes for the first time.
The success of the insurance reforms in the 2010 law hinges on the exchanges' ability to sign up healthy people for coverage.
