Janet Trautwein, CEO of the National Association of Health Underwriters, said in a statement Monday that NAHU members have a strong interest in the development of health exchanges.

Speaker John Boehner says he agrees with President Barack Obama that the nation's borrowing limit must be raised to avoid a government default but insists that House Republicans won't back any deal with tax increases.

Though the Department of Health and Human Services anticipates the agent and broker industry will play a "critical role" in health exchange plan enrollment, whether (and to what extent) agents and brokers will be able to participate in these exchanges is a decision states will have to make before 2014....