Government officials are hoping 254,095 health insurance agents and brokers will sign up to work with the new federal health insurance exchange system created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ACt of 2010.

Officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, an arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, talk a little about how they expect producers to work with the exchanges in a notice (CMS-10464) in the Federal Register Thursday.

Obamacare opponents are still trying to repeal PPACA or get the courts to block implementation of part or all of the act.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.