Cooperative Agreement to Support Establishment of the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance ExchangesCooperative Agreement • February 21st, 2014
Contract Type FiledFebruary 21st, 2014In the fall of 2010, California enacted the first state law in the nation, the California Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (CA-ACA),* establishing a health benefit exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA). The CA-ACA expressed legislative intent for the California Health Benefit Exchange (effective October 2012 branded as COVERED CALIFORNIA) as follows: