Kevin Counihan, the head of Connecticut's health insurance marketplace, will be the new CEO of healthcare.gov, the website that 36 states use to sell Affordable Care Act insurance, the administration announced at noon today.
Kevin Counihan, the head of Connecticut's health insurance marketplace, will be the new CEO of healthcare.gov, the website that 36 states use to sell Affordable Care Act insurance, the administration
at noon today.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell tapped Counihan to lead the site as part of a
that aims to have the second year of Obamacare run more smoothly than the first.
Source: Kaiser Health News
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