The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced that it will delay online enrollment in the federal Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Exchange for one year, until the open enrollment period for 2015, which begins November 2014. Administration officials stated that the decision was necessary as they prioritized fixes to the individual health exchange. The delay will apply to the nearly three-dozen states that declined to establish a SHOP Exchange and are relying on the federally established Exchange.
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