Managers of HealthCare.gov have gotten 7,350 insurance agents and brokers registered to sell health insurance exchange plans through its enrollment system for 2018, in spite of continuing uncertainty about how the individual major medical market will work in 2018.
Managers of the ACA CO-OPs that survived in 2017 have argued that the risk-adjustment program rules discriminate against smaller, newer, cheaper plans.
Agents may have enrolled some consumers in health coverage through HealthCare.gov for 2016 or 2017 without the consumers' permission, according to officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
State-based ACA exchange programs aren't getting any answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the 2018 individual major-medical open-enrollment period.
Senate Republicans are now trying to change the ACA by debating, amending and, possibly, passing their own version of H.R. 1628, a House bill that would repeal many parts of the Affordable Care Act and change others.