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Health Insurers To Administration: Release All Your Regulations Now | The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) — a group of 39 insurers that cover 98 million — is asking the Obama administration to release all insurance regulations by 2012, claiming that they need additional time to implement changes to new health care plans. The insurers argue that they will need to test the new benefit structures and technology systems mandated by the Affordable Care Act by the end of 2012, before the law’s exchanges become operational in 2014. “This will have a huge impact on how we price coverage moving into 2014,” said Kris Haltmeyer, BCBSA’s executive director of legislative and regulatory policy. “We need details early.”