In the southern part of California, the health insurance exchange has been in use for several years and was designed to give consumers a single place to go for information. Not only could they find out more about the various types of insurance, but more about the different insurance companies, what they had to offer and their costs, all in one place.
While the Southern California Health Insurance Exchange might have been the first, it has given rise to the insurance comparison web site. At these sites you can now browse the various insurance companies and what they have to offer and you will find that many of them also have large databases of information to help you decide what type of insurance you and your family needs and then find it at the lowest possible prices so that everyone in your family is properly covered for both routine healthcare as well as illnesses and emergencies.