SHOP marketplace offers choice to small businesses

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New research from the Commonwealth Fund suggests that small business owners should consider the Small Business Health Options Program as a means to navigate the choppy waters in this post-Affordable Care Act world through competitive choice.

According to the new brief, authored by Georgetown University researchers, the SHOP marketplaces – an effort by the federal government to reform the small-group market – offers smaller employers and their employees a choice of insurers and plans. Small businesses are categorized as employers with less than 50 employees.


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