Quotables

“It makes no sense for the District of Columbia to shut down the entire outside market for small business health insurance—which has worked for thousands of businesses over many decades, and force employers to use a never-been-tried government-run insurance exchange to insure their employees. We think D.C. should go ahead with its health exchange—but also continue, like the rest of America, liberal states and conservative states, to keep the outside market open—and provide D.C. businesses a choice for where they purchase their insurance.”

—Scott Golden, spokesman for the Small Employer Alliance for Affordable Healthcare Options and chief financial officer of insurance brokerage Golden & Cohen