The California Association of Health Underwriters wants its state's public exchange to let "Web-based entities" help with enrollment.
Traditional brick-and-mortar agents in some states have opposed letting Web-based entities help with the sale of "qualified health plan" coverage. Those agents have argued that letting the Web-based entities help with QHP sales would make the damage the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is doing to agents even worse.
In California, however, the CAHU board has voted unanimously to ask the Covered California exchange board to allow use of Web-based entity technology.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
