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Agents may be responsible for success of state’s health insurance exchange

May 15, 2014May 14, 2014 Marc

Insurance exchange reaches enrollment goals with the help of agents California officials have been boasting about the state’s insurance exchange achieving its enrollment goals, but insurance agents, rather than the exchange itself, may be the reason behind the high rate of enrollments. Covered California has been working to market its insurance services to consumers throughout the state for several months. The exchange encountered modest technical difficulties that had made the enrollment process problematic for many people, but these issues were overcome fairly quickly. Despite other problems, the exchange was able…

Insurance agents were central to the health care reform successes in California

May 14, 2014May 12, 2014 Julie Campbell

California health insurance industry agent

Regardless of political beliefs with surrounding Obamacare, many achievements were made by these professionals. From the time that the Affordable Care Act truly went into full swing, last October, insurance agents played a key role in making sure that the people who required coverage would be able to find the health plans that they needed, at the best available prices. When the Covered California exchange first started, these professionals were not seen to be as important as they became. Both the officials from California and President Obama, himself, had been…

Health care reform law may be having a modest impact on the uninsured

May 14, 2014May 12, 2014 S.Vagus

The uninsured may not see a need to use insurance exchanges One of the primary goals of the Affordable Care Act in the U.S., widely known as Obamacare, is to make health insurance coverage more accessible to those that did not have insurance coverage in the past. A new study from McKinsey shows, however, that the vast majority of those that have received coverage through the federal law’s provisions already had insurance. Notably, the survey suggests that many of the people that have enrolled for coverage through their state’s insurance…

Health care reform may take a step backward in Hawaii

May 13, 2014May 10, 2014 H. Cutner

The largest insurance company in the state is calling for the closure of the troubled exchange. The CEO of the largest health insurance company in Hawaii has now stated that he feels that the state’s exchange – a central part of the health care reform – should simply be shut down as it is too troubled to be worth its while. The website was created in order to provide residents with the ability to compare and shop for policies. This was one of the states that had decided to operate…

Health care reform continues in Oregon as they toss the exchange

April 28, 2014April 26, 2014 G. Turner

The state will now be getting rid of their website, which never stopped being riddled with problems. The board of the Cover Oregon exchange has now voted to make the next health care reform for the state by shutting down its problem filled enrollment website in order to hop aboard the federal government’s site, which has managed to iron out the vast majority of its own bugs and glitches. This state is one of several that attempted to run their own exchange and found it was an overwhelming struggle. While…