NAHU’s 2011 Capitol Conference

Susan Voss, NAIC President and Iowa Insurance Commissioner, believes that the leadership at HHS has had “an epiphany … they want this law to work, and now know that it can’t without agents,” she said. However, she believes, “health care reform isn’t going away. We’re always going to be working on these issues together.”

Joel Ario, director of HHS’ Office of Insurance Exchanges, voiced his belief that there will be a role for brokers in PPACA’s health insurance exchanges. “If the exchanges are going to work, agents will have to be involved” in them, he said. “The rules should be the same both inside and outside the exchanges,” Ario told the attendees.