The Legislature-approved plan to set up a vision-care service connected to Covered California suffered a veto by Gov. Jerry Brown. The governor said in his veto message that the vision-care law would lead to an unnecessary "new state bureaucracy" that would "divert Covered California's focus with a new scheme." The plan under AB 1877 was to set up an independent web site for vision-care-insurance sales to consumers. Under AB ... (More)
Illegal-alien health plan advances
May 2, 2014 Leave a Comment
A plan to extend Obamacare coverage to undocumented residents in California has won the approval of the state Senate Health Committee. The plan would allow illegal immigrants to obtain health care coverage -- and government subsidies -- via the state Obamacare operation, Covered California. Non-residents were deliberately excluded from the Affordable Care Act during its development at the federal level, in part a political ... (More)
California split on state Obamacare
February 1, 2014 Leave a Comment
California's rollout of the Affordable Care Act has been held up as a national success story, but not all state residents are applauding. Just under half of those polled in mid-January (46 percent) said Covered California's online exchange is working well, about the same percentage that supports Obamacare across the board. About 4 in 10 told the Public Policy Institute of California that the health insurance exchange wasn't working ... (More)
GOP stands by its Obamacare site
December 9, 2013 1 Comment
California Democrats haven't managed to convince the Attorney General's Office that a Republican knockoff of the Covered California web site needs to come off line. Attorney General Kamala Harris several weeks ago forced the removal of 10 private health insurance websites that "misled Californians by imitating Covered California." The GOP-backed Covering Health Care California site was produced by Assembly Republicans, but its ... (More)
Obamacare support near Ca. highs
September 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
Slightly more than half of Californians remain in favor of the Affordable Care Act, with support near record highs, a statewide survey reports on the eve of the opening of the Covered California health insurance marketplace. About a quarter of state residents say they'll be better off under Obamacare, while a slightly smaller amount say they expect to be doing worse, according to the Public Policy Institute of California survey team. ... (More)
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