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•Health Insurance In California Offers More Benefits
With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, California health insurance now includes important preventive care that costs you nothing beyond your regular premium. These services are provided without any co-insurance or co-pay charges, and you and your family will have coverage for these services even before your annual deductible has been met.
This is expected to benefit many people who have gone without regular checkups due to the cost. Regular preventive care is one of the main ways to...
•California Recognizes Importance of Dental Coverage
The Medi-Cal program, which provides health care coverage for qualifying California residents - announced this month that it will restore dental coverage benefits to its beneficiaries who lost their coverage as a result of state budget cuts in 2009. With the restored benefits, more Californians will be able to receive important dental care coverage that they had to go without for a portion of last year. The Medi-Cal program is offered through Health Net of California.
Many health insurance...
•How Does California Health Insurance Stack Up To The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
? Despite the intent of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), results have led to some surprises.
As a group, youth in transition from dependent children to becoming independent working young adults have a difficult time making financial ends meet. One of the outcomes is that almost a third of adults between the ages of 19 and 25 (that's over a million people) lack health insurance.
A national group organized to work on behalf of such young adults, known as the Young...
•California Health Insurance Starts Open Enrollment For Children
While you can apply anytime for California health insurance to cover children, open enrollment probably offers the lowest premiums for youth with pre-existing conditions. Health care reform has mandated that companies selling individual California health insurance plans offer guaranteed-issue child-only policies during open enrollment. That reform policy ends the odious practice of denying health insurance to the children who need it most.
Looking at hospital admission records across 37...
•California Health Insurance Children Are Dying For It
Would tens of thousands of children be live today if they would have had health insurance? Johns Hopkins' researchers have published findings that a lack of health insurance may have led to nearly 17,000 deaths among hospitalized children in the United States in less than two decades.
Their conclusion is based on more than 23 million hospital records between 1988 and 2005, which span 37 states. Other factors being equal, the investigation revealed that uninsured children were 60 percent more...
•Anthem Blue Cross Offering Two New Health Insurance Plans in California
Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Company is responding to the national health care crisis by offering two new affordable health plans for California residents. The two new plans will be rolled out in early 2010, providing low-cost insurance alternatives for the many Californians who either don't have insurance or who have health insurance plans that they are struggling to afford.
The first of Anthem's new health insurance plans - CoreGuard - will become available on January 1,...
•Health Insurance In California Will Healthcare Reform Affect You
? Will you be among the 4 million Californians who get access to healthcare through the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act? You can use your annual income to see whether you'll be qualified for assistance.
If you make between $14,403 and $41,000 a year, or your combined annual family income is under $73,240, you will be eligible to get Health Insurance Plans in California through the exchange and you can use subsidies to make it more affordable.
If you don't have children and your...
•California Health Insurance Protects Californians during Times of Crisis
With hundreds of California Health Insurance Plans available, providers are going beyond expectations to offer additional benefits to their members and the larger community.
Health Insurance for California Provider Donates to Red Cross
One of largest providers of Health Insurance in California -- Anthem Blue Cross of California -- stepped up to help during the southern California wildfires. When residents were forced to flee from their homes, some left behind necessary and valuable...
•CA Health Insurance Companies Pay Fine for Rescinding Health Insurance Policies
Health plan participants have the extra support of legal prosecutors if their health plan providers rescind their policies as a result of illness, thanks to a recent court decision. California health companies have already had to pay more than $13 million in fines to regulators as a result of having rescinded health policies for sick patience.
Health companies may have hoped that the fines would make the scrutiny over their practices go away, but, instead, legal experts expect the scrutiny to...
•Health Insurance for California and Healthcare Reform
You may be wondering whether you'll see changes when you go to the doctor with healthcare reform. Changes are adding coverage in 2010 and 2014.
Will You See Changes In Your Health Insurance In California?
After September 23, 2010, insurance companies can no longer stop you from covering your child, up to the age of 26 if their job doesn't include health insurance, because of a pre-existing health problem. Insurers are also barred from limiting the amount of coverage you can receive in your...
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