Small groups must use health exchange beginning in 2015, following D.C. Council vote, though permanent bill is still pending Insurers have proposed health insurance rates for the District of Columbia's new exchange that are "largely in line with current premiums," city officials announced Thursday. "We're not seeing the rate shock that some other folks around the nation have been discussing," said Mila Kofman, executive director of the D.C. Health Benefit Exchange. Under emergency and temporary legislation passed unanimously by the District Council earlier this week, small businesses—including associations and other nonprofits with 50 or fewer employees—must begin using… Read More