Managers of President Donald Trump's Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services are hoping that, if the program still exists nextyear, insurance agents and brokers will help solve a major problem:HealthCare.gov has a puny Small BusinessHealth Options Program division.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the parent ofCMS, set up HealthCare.gov under former President BarackObama, to provide Affordable Care Act public exchange services instates that were unable or unwilling to do the job themselves.
HealthCare.gov now runs the SHOP division for 33states. Officials at Obama's CMS always avoided answeringquestions about HealthCare.gov SHOP enrollment.
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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.
