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How are brokers responding to ACA turmoil?

As consumers buying ACA plans become frustrated with increasing costs and limited options, brokers are seeing interest in alternative solutions.

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As the ACA market shifts, brokers in some states have moved significant numbers of individual clients into ACA-compliant small group coverage, when possible. (Photo: Getty)

Brokers offer their perspective on the impact of the latest Affordable Care Act policy changes in the report, “Views From the Market — Insurance Brokers’ Perspectives on Changes to Individual Health Insurance,” posted on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation blog by Georgetown University researchers.

Consumers buying plans on ACA exchanges had already been faced with increasingly limited plan choices, relatively narrow provider networks and rising unsubsidized premiums, but in the past year, policy decisions made by Congress and the Trump administration have “exacerbated trends,” according to the researchers.

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Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.

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