Health exchange braces for next round

State health exchange officials, gearing up for the second round of open enrollment this fall, plan to communicate more, brace for an onslaught of last-minute enrollees and rely on the help of a network of community health groups in order to make sure Coloradans are able to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

With slightly more than four months to go until the next open-enrollment period begins for the state’s health-insurance exchange, Connect for Health Colorado, exchange officials have been taking stock of what lessons they learned during last year’s first historic, often tumultuous open-enrollment period.

The program…