Brokers helped 29 percent of the people who signed up for private coverage through Washington state's exchange during open enrollment.

The brokers advised 42,183 of the 146,497 people who enrolled in coverage through the Healthplanfinder, according to a board presentation handout prepared by Catherine Bailey, an exchange employee.

The brokers also helped 28,848 people enroll in Medicaid through the exchange, but that accounted for just 7 percent of the 403,852 people who used it to sign up for Medicaid.

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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.