Using an Insurance Agent or Broker to Sign Up for Obamacare

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Using an Insurance Agent or Broker to Sign Up for Obamacare

If you want some help choosing among your health care options under Obamacare, or could just use a hand completing an application, help is available. If your state has its own health insurance exchange, you can call or email for free help. You can also get free, in-person guidance from “navigators,” people who have special training in helping folks with Obamacare.

You can also seek help from a licensed insurance agent or broker. They can help you:

• figure out whether you qualify for subsidies
• help you compare plans and explain confusing features or terms
• recommend plans for you, and
• walk you through the application process.

You won’t have to pay agents or brokers, who are usually paid by the insurance companies whose policies they sell.

All states have certified brokers and agents available to help individuals and businesses sign up for new plans. For details on what's available to you, select your state from the list on this page.

About Shae Irving

Shae Irving has been writing for Legal Consumer since 2013, focusing on health care and family law. She was a senior legal editor and editorial project manager at Nolo, where she worked for twenty-two years. Shae has degrees in rhetoric and law from U.C. Berkeley and she still lives in the Northern California county where she was born.

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