Saying, "California is looking very closely to how we respond to the call of the president," the state's Obamacare marketplace is close to a decision on whether to allow extensions of outdated health insurance policies. Covered California CEO Peter Lee told reporters the state Obamacare operation would make a decision this week. The organization's board meets Thursday. President Obama, under fire from critics, decided last week to ... (More)
1/3 of Obamacare enrollees in Calif.
November 13, 2013 Leave a Comment
Covered California scored more than a third of the enrollments under the nation's Affordable Care Act in its first month, federal numbers show. The state health insurance exchange indicated 30,830 enrollments were logged during October. Federal numbers, however, showed 35,364 California enrollments through Nov. 2. Covered California's own figures for the first month of Obamacare policy sales said about 375,000 applications were ... (More)
Covered Cal site taking tech break
November 11, 2013 Leave a Comment
Covered California's online enrollment system will be down over the weekend for installation and testing of new functionality. The plan is to take down the enrollment side of coveredcalifornia.com at 8 p.m. Saturday. The outage could last until the early hours of Tuesday. (UPDATE: Covered California moved the outage to the next weekend, Nov. 22-25.) Consumers seeking to get their health insurance squared away that weekend are out ... (More)
Covered California logs traffic
November 5, 2013 Leave a Comment
Covered California has logged about 227,000 application starts so far, with business at a steady pace in recent weeks. The insurance marketplace counted 511,000 unique visits to its web site in the week ending Nov. 2, with its phone service centers handling about 50,000 calls. The latest numbers are down slightly from the week before, but up from the week before that, suggesting the Affordable Care Act marketplace of California has ... (More)
Covered Cal drops insurance carrier
November 1, 2013 Leave a Comment
One of the dozen health insurance carriers for Covered California has been suspended for lack of a state license. Alameda Alliance for Health has been removed from the Affordable Care Act marketplace in California "until further notice." The Bay area non-profit, which provides Medi-Cal managed care plans, failed to win approval with its application for a "material modification" of its license that would allow commercial insurance ... (More)
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