Obamacare, Health insurance and California
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Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Details of California’s new health insurance exchange were announced today. Thirteen insurance agencies will offer a variety of plans, with about five million people ...
Covered California estimates about 400,000 people would leave the exchange and likely go without insurance. And that, health care professionals and advocates warn, will only heap stress — in the form of more crowded emergency rooms and community clinics ...
Beginning Saturday, Americans will be able to log into the federal Affordable Care Act exchange and choose their insurance plans for next year. Nov. 1. has been a key date in the shutdown fight,
More than 82,000 people in Alameda County get their health insurance through Covered California. But when open enrollment begins on Nov. 1, they’ll be facing steep rate hikes. Covered California is the state’s health exchange, created by the Affordable ...
Less than a year after Dreamers were first allowed to sign up for Covered California health insurance, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are about to lose their health care coverage. In California, that means about 2,300 ...
Californians who get their health insurance through the state’s marketplace will see premiums increase by an average of 10.3% next year. Covered California officials announced Thursday the first double-digit rate increase since 2018, saying it represents ...
I have to say I was surprised with the press reports last week that there wasn't "rate shock" in California when the California exchange offered preliminary information about their new plans and rates. At least one prominent health actuarial group had ...
While work requirements and enrollment verification for Medicaid recipients got the most attention during the debate over President Trump’s domestic policy bill, there are other factors in play that will take effect much sooner that could cost thousands ...