How has the ACA impacted individual sales?

Brokers played a key role in helping individuals enroll in health care coverage on the marketplaces under the ACA — 60% of brokers helped up to 50 consumers during the 2015 open enrollment period, and 20% helped more than 100, according to the 2015 Kaiser Foundation Survey of Health Insurance Marketplace Assister Programs and Brokers. However, brokers reported that selling individual policies is more time consuming and less profitable since the ACA was implemented.

Here are some other broker-related findings from the survey: