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Health Insurance Brokers Must Disclose Commissions To Clients, Prospects
https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/health-insurance-brokers-must-disclose-commissions-to-clients-prospects

Health Agents Swamped During Open Enrollment, HAFA Says
https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/health-agents-swamped-during-open-enrollment-hafa-says

Jobless and benefit-less: What should COVID-19’s economic victims do for health insurance?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/04/02/coronavirus-put-millions-out-work-how-still-get-health-coverage/5110652002/

Louisiana insurance premiums for ACA market to increase by double-digit percentage in 2020
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_29c1aaf2-f5c3-11e9-9ad4-f72ab69d9912.html

Signs of trouble – and progress – as Obamacare 2019 open enrollment nears
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/08/19/obamacare-2019-open-enrollment-nears-signs-trouble-progress/1996342001/

HAFA Mobilizes Members to Fight Senate Agent Comp Disclosure Provision
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2019/06/21/hafa-mobilizes-members-to-fight-senate-agent-comp-disclosure-provision/?slreturn=20190528163023

Louisiana Regulator Tells UnitedHealth to Pay Group Commissions
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2019/05/31/louisiana-regulator-tells-unitedhealth-to-pay-group-commissions/?slreturn=20190528162941

Broker comp disclosure bill flies through Senate committee
https://bit.ly/2KJZiXx

Health Agent Group Takes Fight for Survival to the Sea
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2019/04/08/health-agent-group-takes-fight-for-survival-to-the-sea/?slreturn=20190402140051

Covered CA offers three-day grace period
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/sd-no-coveredca-extension-20190115-story.html

Las Vegas Broker Helps Client Navigate System, Says Many Purchased Wrong Plans When ACA Debuted
https://www.vegasnews.com/181845/las-vegas-broker-helps-client-navigate-system-says-many-purchased-wrong-plans-when-aca-debuted.html

Health Insurance Sign-Ups Begin: Some Assistance Recommended
https://apnews.com/30e2519d924340a480d84145af1d45f8

TV interview with Presidential Board Member, Craig Gussin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHKSsF07UVI

CNN Reports HAFA
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/11/politics/short-term-health-insurance-obamacare/index.html

Short Term Medical Plans
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/health/os-ne-short-term-health-plans-20181112-story.html

Nevada Today
https://vimeo.com/284208311/6e2d9561bf

Trump administration finalizes expansion of short-term health plans
http://clicklancashire.com/2018/08/05/trump-administration-finalizes-expansion-of-short-term.html

President Donald Trump’s answer to Obamacare: Short-term health insurance
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/01/president-trumps-answer-obamacare-short-term-health-insurance/879337002/

President Donald Trump’s answer to Obamacare: Short-term health insurance
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-now/president-donald-trumps-answer-to-obamacare-short-term-health-insurance/465-f2353449-d113-4c5d-b331-3813c36399f8

Finding Health Insurance Before Medicare
https://www.kiplinger.com/article/retirement/T027-C000-S004-finding-health-insurance-before-medicare.html?rid=SYN-google-editors-picks

Lower-Health plans come at a high price
https://www.kiplinger.com/article/retirement/T027-C000-S004-lower-cost-health-plans-come-at-a-high-price.html

Freeze to Obamacare payments injects uncertainty in LA.
http://www.dailycomet.com/news/20180713/freeze-to-obamacare-payments-injects-uncertainty-in-la

Trump’s New Insurance Rules are Panned by Nearly Every Healthcare Group that Submitted Formal Comments
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-insurance-opposition-20180530-story.html

Trump’s new insurance rules are panned by nearly every healthcare group that submitted formal comments
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-insurance-opposition-20180530-story.html

Agent group says they’are ignored by CMS on guidance
http://www.benefitspro.com/2014/01/16/agent-group-says-theyre-ignored-by-cms-on-guidance

Healthcare Law – Good, bad and the ugly
http://www.allreadable.com/vid/healthcare-law-good,-the-bad-and-the-ugly-interview-with-ronnell-nolan-2092619.html

Affordable Care Act topic of Gonzales Rotary Meeting
http://www.weeklycitizen.com/article/20140219/News/140219555

Health reforms lower pay
http://theadvocate.com/home/9216446-125/health-reforms-lower-pay

Insurance Marketplaces Come In, Glitches and All
http://www.louisianamedicalnews.com/insurance-marketplaces-come-in-glitches-and-all-cms-2281

The Truth Agents/Brokers & FFM Navigators The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
http://totalbenefits.net/the-truth-agentsbrokers-ffm-navigators-the-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act/

Health Insurance Deadline
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/31/obamacare-deadline-healthcaregov-state-site-performance/7107287/

Businesses urged to prepare as Obamacare approaches
http://www.americanpress.com/Businesses-urged-to-prepare-as-Obamacare-approaches

Louisiana insurance agents react to health marketplace opening
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/10/louisiana_health_insurance_mar.html

Concerns Raised in Louisiana about Navigating Health Exchange
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2013/09/19/305707.htm

Landrieu Leads Effort to Make Affordable Care Act Work Better for La. Families and Businesses
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2013/09/19/305707.htm

Allison Bell LifeHealthPro:  If you were at HAFA’s meeting last year, you could have been in a small room with Sen. Bill Cassidy, who’s now one of the key guys shaping the H.R. 1628 debate. It’s hard to get any more inside than that without being a blood relative of someone who works in the White House.

Agent Groups, Insurers Mobilize for Harvey
http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2017/08/29/agent-groups-insurers-mobilize-for-harvey

Trump Executive Order Eases The Way For Association Health Plans
https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/trump-executive-order-eases-way-association-health-plans

Here We Go Again! No Vote On ACA Repeal
https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/go-no-vote-aca-repeal#.WepBs1tSyUk

Georgia May Let Insurers Skip Paying Some Health Commissions
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2018/03/15/georgia-may-let-health-insurers-nix-special-enroll/?slreturn=20180226123843

Agents:  Obamacare deadline extension WAS needed
http://www.ibamag.com/news/agents-obamacare-deadline-extension-was-needed-17708.aspx

Health insurance ads target Gen Y women
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/04/obamacare-ad-campaign-gen-y-women/5085499/

Are Medicare helpline representatives stealing agents’ clients?
https://www.benefitspro.com/2017/10/16/are-medicare-helpline-representatives-stealing-age?ref=hp-news

Sen. Bill Cassidy’s health care plan faces frenzied uphill battle, lengthening odds
http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_d6fd1e18-9fad-11e7-9022-830a72371b16.html