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California’s Health Exchange Working With Insurance Agents To Benefit Small...
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— California’s health insurance exchange not only will allow individuals to shop for health insurance plans, but small businesses as well. Traditionally, businesses with 50...
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ConsumerWatch: ACA Leads To Rate Hikes For Some Policyholders
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Some Californians are getting hit with a painful side effect of Obamacare: Their health insurance rates are going up. But California’s health care exchange says consumers...
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Nearly 1 Million Californians Could Lose Health Care Plans Under Obamacare
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – The head of California’s new health insurance exchange estimates that nearly one million Californians may see their health insurance plans disappear when the Affordable Care Act...
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Obama Gets Help From Oracle, Google To Fix Healthcare Site
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — The Obama administration has recruited engineers from several prominent technology companies to help fix the technological problems preventing people from signing up for...
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Alameda-Based Health Plan Pulled From Covered California Insurance Marketplace
ALAMEDA (CBS SF) — An Alameda-based health plan offered through Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace that launched last month, has been removed as an option, officials from the...
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Millions Of Californians Could Qualify For Tax Subsidy Under Affordable Care Act
SAN JOSE (KCBS) — A new report finds that nearly two million people in California could qualify for tax subsidies under the new Affordable Care Act. The study comes as the federal insurance website...
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Social Security In 1935: How Today’s Health Law Should Evolve
“If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.” – President Barack Obama speaking before the American Medical Association on June 15, 2009 The president’s...
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5 Ways To Buy Health Insurance Without A Government Exchange
The heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Health Insurance Marketplace, opened on October 1, and offers Americans a new way to purchase health insurance, but it is not the only way. Many...
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Enforcing The Health Law Mandate: What The IRS Can & Can’t Do
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate is perhaps the most controversial piece of the health reform legislation. The law requires nearly all Americans maintain “minimal essential” health...
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Romneycare Vs. Obamacare: Key Similarities & Differences
The less-than-smooth launch of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, coupled with the recent revelations that many who purchase health insurance on the individual market are receiving cancellation...
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Only 35,000 Enrolled In First Month Of California Healthcare Exchange
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) — California’s new health insurance exchange tentatively enrolled 35,000 people during its first month of operation, a fraction of the eventual goal in the state with the nation’s...
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California Asks Health Insurers To Extend Policies
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California’s insurance commissioner on Thursday called on health insurance companies and the state insurance exchange to extend a deadline on individual policies through 2014 after...
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Three Glaring Changes Needed To Fix Obamacare
Written by Gillian Burdett via Examiner.com At a November 14 White house press briefing, President Obama acknowledged that “the roll out has been rough so far.” He was referring to the October 1 launch...
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Officials Happy With California Health Exchange Enrollment Rate So Far
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Despite low enrollment and website issues involving the Affordable Care Act on the federal level, state insurance exchanges in California and other states said they are happy...
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Calif. Health Exchange Enrollees Trending Older
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Initial enrollees in California’s online health insurance marketplace are trending older, according to a report released Thursday that provides the first detailed look at those who...
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Covered California Health Exchange Board Upholds Cancelling 1M Policies
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) – The board overseeing California’s health insurance exchange voted unanimously Thursday to stick with its current year-end deadline of phasing out more than 1 million individual...
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Obamacare Key Dates In 2014
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law March 2010. Over the ensuing three years, various provisions of the law have gone into effect. The newly created health insurance marketplaces opened...
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ConsumerWatch Call-In: Your Affordable Health Care Questions Answered
(KPIX 5) – With a deadline approaching for Californians to apply for health insurance in order to be covered beginning January 1st, KPIX 5 is helping you get the answers you need on health care....
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Covered California Staffers Hold Bay Area Health Care Enrollment Events
Representatives with the state’s health care exchange, Covered California, are holding a number of events at Bay Area libraries helping people enroll over the next two weeks. People who want to enroll...
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Election Watch: Will Obamacare Hurt Democrats In 2014?
A botched website launch, a you-can-keep-your-plan promise that didn’t quite pan out, fears of increasing premiums, decreasing choices, job cuts, death panels – these Obamacare memes make it hard to be...
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Obamacare Enrollment In California: Over 150,000 So Far
The California state health insurance exchange, Covered California, is outstripping every other state in its number of enrollees. A surge of nearly 50,000 enrollments the first week of December has...
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Covered California Extends Payment Deadline To Jan. 15
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) — The agency running California’s health insurance exchange has extended the deadline for payments until January 15. Covered California says on its website that health coverage will...
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625K Enroll In Covered California, Signups Among Young Below Expectations
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — Officials with California’s health insurance exchange Tuesday said about 625,000 people have signed up for an individual or family policy under the federal health care reforms,...
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ConsumerWatch: Some Doctors Surprised To Be On Covered California Provider List
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — After KPIX 5 ConsumerWatch revealed confusion over which physicians are accepting patients under Covered California, some doctors who did not want to accept patients on the...
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ConsumerWatch: Covered California Enrollees Complain Of Bait & Switch
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — A growing number of people who purchased health insurance through California’s state run exchange are complaining that they were misled about the availability of physicians in...
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Covered California Enrollees Complain About Limited Doctor Choices Nearby
ALAMEDA COUNTY (KPIX 5) — California’s health care exchange promised potential customers they would have enough physicians to choose from. But some new enrollees, including an Alameda County woman, are...
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Some Bay Area Residents Refuse To Sign Up For Insurance, Will Pay Penalty
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – Despite an extended deadline to sign up for health care under Covered California, some in the Bay Area are choosing to pay a penalty instead of insurance because of the cost. Brian...
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ConsumerWatch: Some Covered California Patients Say They Can’t See A Doctor
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX 5) – While open enrollment for coverage under the Affordable Care Act is closed, many of the newly insured are finding they can’t find doctors, landing them into a state described...
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Insurer Admits Nearly 1,000 Doctors Wrongly Placed On Covered California...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Two months after KPIX 5 ConsumerWatch first reported about some doctors listed on the Covered California exchange were actually not accepting the plans, insurer Anthem Blue...
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Sonoma County Man Battling Cancer Denied Coverage By Anthem Blue Cross After...
CAMP MEEKER (CBS SF) — A Sonoma County man battling more than a dozen tumors in his body is fighting a new battle with his insurance carrier, who has denied coverage for his treatments. Jeffrey Rusch...
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Anthem Blue Cross To Cover Sonoma County Cancer Patient After KPIX 5 Report
SONOMA COUNTY (KPIX 5) — Anthem Blue Cross told the family of a Sonoma County man that they will cover his cancer treatment, after KPIX 5 reported that they received a letter denying coverage. Jeffrey...
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Gov. Brown Signs Spending Plan That Expands Medi-Cal While Continuing Budget...
SAN DIEGO (CBS/AP) — California has been praised by health advocates for its early embrace of the federal health care expansion, but the new state budget has raised questions about its commitment to...
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Shifting Some Public Employees To Obamacare Would Save Billions, Stanford...
PALO ALTO (KCBS) — According to a new study from Stanford University, local and state governments could save billions of dollars on their health care costs if they were to shift thousands of public...
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Oakland Doctors Produce ‘Welcome To County’ Rap Video To Publicize Hospital...
OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — Oakland doctors concerned about the funding of county hospitals are taking a one-of-a-kind approach to publicizing that concern, with the release of a slickly-produced rap video. The...
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Patients Racking Up Medical Bills Despite Affordable Care Act
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Even people with health insurance can still rack up significant medical debt, particularly if they get a serious illness. Now, a new service from Nerdwallet is helping...
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What Has The Affordable Care Act Accomplished A Year Later?
The next Open Enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (also known as “Obamacare”) will begin on November 15, 2014. But with almost a year under its belt, has the Affordable Care Act impact as many...
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Website Problems, Phone Delays Reported In 2nd Year Of Covered California...
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— Covered California officials say the first weekend of open enrollment for the second round of state-subsidized health insurance was busy and that they learned a lot from the first...
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Covered California Sends Out Nearly 100,000 Tax Forms Containing Errors,...
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_1302201517263707526AA.mp4 DANVILLE (KPIX 5) – Tens of thousands of people who buy their health insurance through Covered California will get an unpleasant...
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Covered California Extends Health Insurance Enrollment After Many Affected By...
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— The state’s health insurance exchange is giving people who didn’t know about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax penalty a little extra time to sign up for coverage this year. That...
View ArticleTrump Halts Obamacare Expansion; Order May Let IRS Waive Mandate Fines
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s first executive order targets the sweeping “Obamacare” law by giving federal agencies broad leeway to chip away at the measure. But Trump still needs Congress...
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