States will be learning labs for health exchanges

LONGMONT – Federal health-care reform rules may go into effect on Jan. 1, but their effect really won’t be felt for decades, said Jandel Allen-Davis, the lunch keynote speaker at Pulse: What’s Next with Health-Care Reform?, presented Tuesday by the Boulder County Business Report at the Plaza Convention Center in Longmont.

But becauseJan. 1 marks the “end of the beginning” of federal health-care reform rules, industry predictions are important, Allen-Davis said.

Allen-Davis is vice president for government and external relations at Kaiser Permanente Colorado in Denver. The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in 2010. All uninsured…