Just over a half million California residents enrolled for health insurance in the first three months of Covered California's operation, the state Obamacare operation says. "We are on track to meeting, if not beating (our) enrollment estimates as we continue to pick up steam," said Pete Lee, the organization's executive director, left. The preliminary total of enrollments in Covered California health insurance plans from Oct. 1 ... (More)
On hold for Covered California
January 17, 2014 3 Comments
Waiting times to get help from the Obamacare operation in California remain near peak levels, with phone callers on hold for an average of more than 49 minutes in the latest reporting period. The worst reported wait times were in the previous period -- the final days of signup for insurance coverage to begin Jan. 1 -- with callers on hold for an hour. Calls of up an hour and a half have been reported. The shortest wait times since ... (More)
Payment deadline now Jan. 15
January 5, 2014 Leave a Comment
Yet another Obamacare deadline has shifted: California customers of the state exchange have until Jan. 15 to make their first month's premium payments. That adds more than a work week to the previous Jan. 6 deadline, which was itself an extension for first-month payments for coverage that began Jan. 1. To no one's surprise, the latest extension came amid consumer complaints of lack of billing from insurance carriers, problems with ... (More)
Paper applications in 5 languages
January 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
The Covered California web site is now offering paper applications in five languages, including Spanish and Chinese. The Spanish-language application became available just before the start of the new year, apparently after the deadline for coverage beginning Jan. 1 (2014). Officials said they did not want to release an "application that was not ready" and have had admitted that the Latino outreach could have been better. Officials ... (More)
Limited Covered Cal app extensions
December 24, 2013 Leave a Comment
Health insurance seekers who were frustrated in their last-minute attempts to sign up at Covered California have a reprieve. The California Obamacare operation announced the selective extensions a day after the Dec. 23 deadline for signups. "If you started an application Dec. 23, but haven't completed it, you now have until Friday, Dec. 27, at 8 p.m. to finish for coverage starting on Jan.," Covered California said on its Facebook ... (More)
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