{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Kentucky has taken another step toward a statewide health insurance exchange. Governor Steve Beshear has appointed Carrie Banahan as executive director of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, an initiative that resulted from federal health care reforms. Banaham had been executive director of the Kentucky Office of Health Policy. Beshear issued an executive order in July creating the statewide health insurance exchange, which will allow people to comparison shop online for insurance by January 1, 2014. The federal government will create exchanges starting in 2014 for states that don't develop their own.
