California health insurance exchange Archives

California could fall short of its health insurance enrollment goal

February 16, 2015February 14, 2015 S.Vagus

Covered California may not reach its enrollment goal this year California may be falling short of its goal to enroll 1.7 million people into its health insurance exchange, called Covered California. The state has been heavily promoting its insurance exchange, hoping to raise awareness of the availability of health insurance coverage for those that do not have it. During the last open enrollment period, the state managed to enroll hundreds of thousands of people into the exchange, but enrollment rates have slowed considerably during the last days of the latest…

California warns consumers to get health insurance coverage or face federal fines

January 16, 2015January 15, 2015 Marc

Covered California is encouraging consumers to purchase health insurance coverage California’s health insurance exchange is about to emphasize the potential fines that consumers could face by remaining uninsured. Covered California officials are warning consumers that the open enrollment period will be coming to an end soon, which means that those without health insurance coverage will face fines from the federal government for being uninsured. In order to help people avoid these fines, the state’s insurance exchange, which is the largest state-run exchange in the country, is taking steps to raise…

California health insurance exchange sparks controversy

October 16, 2014October 13, 2014 S.Vagus

Covered California awards $184 million in contracts to organizations associated with executive director California’s health insurance exchange, called Covered California, has sparked some controversy this week. According to records obtained by the Associated Press through the state’s Public Records Act, some $184 million in no-bid contracts have been awarded to numerous organizations throughout the state. This is controversial because these contracts were awarded without the competitive bidding and oversight process that is common in the state government. Some of the deals awarded have sent millions of dollars to organizations that…

California health insurance exchange is shrinking

August 18, 2014August 16, 2014 Logan B.

Exchanges are adding new carriers in many parts of the US, but not in California Insurance exchanges in some states are adding new carriers that will be supplying coverage to consumers beginning in November of this year. This coverage will go into effect on January 1, 2015. California is one of the only states whose exchange did not welcome a new carrier this year. Covered California, as the state’s exchange is called, is experiencing a somewhat unique problem in the availability of health insurance coverage. The state’s exchange is becoming…

Health care reform causes some turbulence in California

May 19, 2014May 17, 2014 Logan B.

Californians are finding that they no longer have access to their favorite doctors Consumers in California are learning that they are no longer able to see their old health care providers because changes to their health insurance coverage. With the launch of the state’s insurance exchange, called Covered California, many people throughout the state purchased new insurance policies. While many of these policies came from the companies they had been patrons of for several years, these policies did not include the same coverage networks. In other cases, health care organizations…

Health care reform marketing isn’t reaching some ethnic groups

February 21, 2014February 18, 2014 Julie Campbell

Certain communities, such as Latinos, have not been enrolling in the exchanges as much as others. According to the latest data from the health care reform enrollments, Latinos are the ethnic group in the United States that has the greatest amount to gain from purchasing insurance plans but are also the group that are among the least likely to actually sign up. At least one in every three Latinos in the United States do not have health insurance. This is a far greater rate of enrollments among the Caucasians and…

California health insurance exchange for small businesses taken down

February 17, 2014February 15, 2014 G. Turner

The SHOP marketplace in the state is now no longer available for businesses shopping for coverage. The most populous state in the country has now decided to take down the California health insurance exchange that was meant for small businesses, likely only temporarily, only four months after it had opened its doors in the first place. This could be seen as yet another blow to the health care reform law for keeping costs down for employers. Officials in the state revealed that they would be suspending enrollments occurring online through…