State HIX execs say brokers are key to future SHOP success

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The Affordable Care Act’s Small Business Health Options Program will not succeed without the broker community, the heads of three state-run exchanges said at a HIX policy conference.

In Rhode Island, brokers are largely an “untapped potential and key to our success in the future” of growing SHOP, Anya Rader Wallack, executive director of HealthSource Rhode Island, said at the conference in Washington last week.

Brian M. Kalish
Online Managing Editor, Health Care Group

Kalish is a fomer managing editor of SourceMedia’s Employee Benefits Group.


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