NAHU CEO Janet Trautwein said NAHU will customize the DC Health Link version of the course to reflect the characteristics of the D.C. exchange.

The D.C. exchange will require brokers to go through a training process and other procedures to get certified to sell exchange coverage.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act calls for the district to open its exchange by Oct. 1.

The District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority, the agency setting up the exchange, hopes to have the exchange handle all individual business starting in 2014 and to move toward having the exchange handle all small-group business.

Brokers could continue to help consumers and small businesses buy exchange coverage, and only the brokers certified to work with the exchange could recommend that consumers or small businesses consider buying specific exchange plans.

Other exchange advisors, such as navigators, could give only general advice about how consumers and business owners could use the exchange.

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