Work on Nebraska's own version of health care insurance reform will ramp up next month when bills to create the Nebraska Health Benefit Exchange Act come up for debate.
Sen. Rich Pahls of Boys Town and Sen. Jeremy Nordquist of Omaha each have introduced a bill in hopes of having a state law in place before the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the federal health care reform plan this summer.
Both bills would create the benefit exchange act, which is aimed at providing health insurance options for Nebraskans looking for affordable, quality health coverage.
Nebraska is among many states working on their own laws instead of waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on whether the federal plan requiring nearly all Americans to buy health insurance by 2014 is unconstitutional.
