The Health and Human Services Department, (HHS), unveiled a new consumer website called Healthcare.gov. This web site is designed to help Americans figure out what insurance options and care options are available to individuals, families, seniors, people with disabilities, young adults and employers.

“The new site provides unprecedented transparency into the healthcare marketplace,” says Kathleen Sebelius, HHS Secretary. “It makes comparison shopping for policies easier and takes some of the mystery out of a system of confusion that thrived on complication and confusion,” Kathleen Sebelius says, in a post on The White House Blog.

The Healthcare.gov web site allows visitors to answer questions about their health and employment status and then provides visitors with a list of nearby options. This customized list of resources was produced from some 1000 insurance carriers, every Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program in the country, and the new pre-existing conditions plan that every state is required to have under the new health reform law. In October 2010, price comparisons will be available to visitors online at Healthcare.gov.