Effective in January 2020, the California individual health care mandate requires all state residents to obtain minimum essential health coverage or face a penalty unless they obtain an exemption. In addition to maintaining their own health coverage, individuals must ensure their spouse or domestic partner...
On January 28, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand access to Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage to assist with the COVID-19 public health emergency. In response, HHS announced a new special enrollment period...
In the face of the increasing health crisis, Covered California will extend the first major open-enrollment deadline of Dec. 15, 2020 to give consumers through Dec. 30, 2020 to sign up for coverage that begins next year. More than 1.2 million Californians are currently uninsured...
Covered California – the state’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance exchange - recently announced that 418,052 people had newly selected a health plan for 2020 during the most recent open enrollment period. The total is more than 122,000, or 41 percent, higher than last year’s...
According to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, approximately 49 percent of the U.S. population receives employer-sponsored health insurance – with California topping the list of states that have the greatest total number of people covered by group health insurance plans. The dramatic spike in unemployment...