California's insurance commissioner says the state Obamacare operation is denying "individuals and families the opportunity to keep their existing health insurance as President Obama promised." Commissioner Dave Jones says Covered California's decision not to allow extensions of outdated health insurance policies discriminates against individual buyers of insurance, while small business customers are allowed to renew coverage through ... (More)
No extensions for California policies
November 21, 2013 Leave a Comment
Covered California will not allow state health insurers to offer extensions of their outdated policies. The state Obamacare's board of directors voted unanimously to stay the course, despite lobbying from the California insurance commissioner. "Delaying the transition won't solve a single problem," said board member Susan Kennedy. "If I thought for a minute that by delaying it we could solve some of the problems I would (vote to) ... (More)
Confusion follows Obama order
November 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
California's Obamacare operation and insurance companies are scrambling to adjust in the wake of the president's decision to allow extensions of existing policies. Seeking to make good on his promise that people could keep their policies under Obamacare, the president apologized and offered the possibility of one-year extensions of insurance policies that do not deliver the Affordable Care Act's essential health benefits. "We ... (More)
Anthem extends 104,000 policies
November 12, 2013 Leave a Comment
Anthem Blue Cross will delay the end-of-year policy cancellations for more than 100,000 holders of individual health care policies. Anthem joins Blue Shield of California in putting off the cancellations at the insistence of California's insurance commissioner. Both insurance companies failed to give policy holders the 90-day notice required by law. The California Department of Insurance explained: "After being informed by Anthem ... (More)
Blue Shield health policies extended
November 6, 2013 Leave a Comment
California's insurance commissioner says insurance companies and the state Obamacare marketplace are at fault in causing cancellation of almost a million health insurance policies. The commissioner, Dave Jones (pictured), has pressed Blue Shield of California into extending coverage for as many as 119,000 clients until the end of the first quarter of 2014. They are among the more than a million Californians with existing individual ... (More)
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