The National Association Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) is sending more than 700 people who specialize in selling health insurance, and explaining it to their clients, to Capitol Hill this week.
NAHU officially began its 2018 Capitol Conference at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, at the Hyatt Regency Washington, D.C., with an opening reception sponsored by UMB Healthcare Services Inc., and an evening of bowling.
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NAHU is offering a day of briefings and meetings for attendees on Monday.
NAHU will offer more briefings for attendees on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, attendees will head to Capitol Hill, for prearranged meetings with senators, representatives and legislative aides.
One of the scheduled speakers is Eric Hargan, the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., is also on the list of speakers.
The representatives on the speaker list include Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat; Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania Republican; Billy Long, a Missouri Republican; Tom Reed, a New York Republican; Kurt Schrader, an Oregon Democrat; and Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Republican.
Peter Lee, the executive director of Covered California, California's ACA public exchange program, will make the case for why public exchange programs and agents should work together.