Executive Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently announced that full implementation of the SHOP component of the state-based health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”) run in full or in part by the federal government will be delayed until 2015. States setting up their own exchanges will be given the option to elect to similarly delay full implementation of their SHOPs until 2015.
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