Quotes
“For small businesses, in particular, the SHOP exchange offers the opportunity to provide employees with more choices, more value and more clarity about what a health plan covers.”
—Garry Maisel, CEO, Western Health Advantage“SHOP exchanges have the opportunity to deliver on the nationwide trend of giving employees the resources and tools to stay healthy.”
—Joe Smith, Vice President of Small Business, Kaiser Permanente“State leaders can protect small businesses and the millions they employ by ensuring that SHOP exchanges offer real choices among carriers and that no small business owner is forced to spend more time working on health insurance paperwork than running their business.”
—John Arensmeyer, Founder & CEO, Small Business Majority“Exchanges should allow the employees of small businesses to choose among competing insurance carriers and delivery systems, just as consumers in the individual market can under the new reform law, and as employees of many large employers already can.”
—Alain Enthoven, Stanford University
Latest News
Oregon health insurance exchange: Small businesses push for choices
We see the health insurance exchange as an opportunity to offer our employees real choices of insurance carriers, doctors and disease-prevention programs.
Workers Must Have Health Plan Choices
The California Health Benefit Exchange board is scheduled to make a key decision Thursday, which will define whether each employee will get the chance to pick their health plan...
A Healthy Healthcare Exchange
The California Health Benefits Exchange represents an excellent opportunity to improve the quality and cost of healthcare in this state.
New Small Business Survey Shows Strong Demand for Competitive Health Insurance Exchanges Offering Multiple Options to Employees in California
A new survey, conducted on behalf of Small Business Majority and Kaiser Permanente, found that the availability of SHOP exchanges in 2014 could spur more small business owners to provide health benefits to employees.

