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)
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)
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)
2.2 million on Covered Cal site
October 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
Covered California's web site logged nearly a half million unique visits in the week ending Oct. 19, with 2.2 million visitors checking out its health care products since the opening of business. The California web site continues to fare far better than the federal Affordable Care Act web site, whose numerous problems have drawn the ire of the president -- and, of course, Obamacare's many critics. Covered California's call centers ... (More)
Asian ads tout Obamacare in Calif.
October 22, 2013 Leave a Comment
Covered California is engaged in a major expansion of its Asian-language media efforts, with new TV spots airing in multiple languages, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean and Tagalog. About a dozen variations on the same TV ad are on display, showing an Asian family getting medical help for their young daughter. The spoken content and writing are changed for targeted audiences, but not the visuals. The health care ... (More)
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