Insurers that seek to discourage high-cost customers from signing up for their Obamacare Marketplace plans may soon be dealt a blow by health care officials in California.

Covered California, the state-run health insurance marketplace set up by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is considering new rules that would require insurers to pay insurance agents commissions for all new customers, including the high-cost ones that insurers would prefer to avoid.

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