HealthSource RI is the health insurance marketplace for the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
The marketplace enables people and small businesses to purchase health insurance, many at federally subsidized rates.
As of February 8, 2014, 16,512 people had signed up for private health insurance through HealthSource RI, and 107 small businesses had enrolled 658 employees and dependents.
[1] On February 4, 2015, Richard Salit of the Providence Journal wrote that 27,000 2014 enrollees may owe money to the IRS because they may have received too large of a subsidy.
[2] Health insurance exchanges were established as a part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to enable individuals and businesses to purchase health insurance in state-run marketplaces.