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Plan would delay D.C. health exchange for small groups

Most employers would not be required to shop on new health insurance marketplace until 2015, but city council has final say Graham Washington, D.C.-based associations with 50 or fewer employees will have at least one more year to transition to the city's new health insurance market, under a plan approved by the D.C. Health Benefit Exchange Authority. During this transition, small businesses, like many nonprofit groups, wanting to buy coverage for their employees for the first time in 2014—as well as consumers buying individual plans—must shop for health insurance on a new Web-based portal. But these small businesses may postpone using the portal until it is time to… Read More