Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Insurance Agents Hope Health Law's Second Enrollment Season Runs More Smoothly
Where you live in many ways determines what you get from Obamacare — and some insurance agents say that may not change much in the second year of the program, which begins open enrollment Saturday. Cincinnati insurance agent Kevin Schlotman describes a neighborhood on the Ohio-Indiana border where Affordable Care Act options are vastly different depending upon which side of the street you live on. (Unger, 11/13)
To reach enrollment goals in the coming round of insurance sign-ups, health-care officials are changing their strategies. While Washington boasted a big reduction in the number of uninsured residents in the first enrollment wave, those gains came, in large part, from a surge in Medicaid participants — and less because people bought coverage. So when enrollment in 2015 private insurance plans starts again Saturday, insurance brokers — the folks licensed to help people choose among dozens of insurance plans — will play a more prominent role. (Stiffler, 11/13)