For MNsure, attracting small businesses is a big problem

MNsure has missed big on one of its original selling points: getting more small businesses to offer insurance to employees.

The government-run marketplace was expected to cover 155,000 people in small group plans by next year. That number was 1,405 earlier this month.

Insurance agents who connect small firms with coverage say several factors are at play, including a MNsure system they call slow and cumbersome. Steps that still can’t be done online are burdensome.

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