‘In The News’ Archives
Support for Healthcare Overhaul Reaches All-Time High in New Poll
Support for President Obama's healthcare overhaul is at an all-time high in California, according to a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California. The survey, released Wednesday, found that 55% of Californians back the changes to the nation's healthcare system under the federal Affordable Care Act, up 8 percentage points since last [...]
Students Urge UC to Drop Cap on Health-Care Coverage
Students are calling on the University of California to lift its cap on the health-care coverage it offers as part of its student plans, in an effort to eliminate an apparent loophole in the Obama administration’s 2010 health-care overhaul that the students say could leave them on the hook for expensive medical treatments. University officials [...]
Legislation Proposed to Help California Launch Healthcare Overhaul
The California state Legislature gaveled in a special session on healthcare Monday, pushing forward with sweeping proposals to help California implement President Obama's healthcare overhaul. The measures, including a major expansion of Medi-Cal, the state's public insurance program for the poor, would cement the state's status as the nation's [...]
Governor Calls Special Session on Health Reform
Governor Brown is calling a special legislative session to implement parts of the federal health care overhaul in California. Brown issued a proclamation Thursday calling on lawmakers to convene Monday. The governor says California needs to tweak some state laws to conform to new federal rules on health coverage. The state will need to make it [...]
Report Shows Central Valley Behind in ACA Preparation
The Fresno region, which includes Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Kings and Tulare counties, needs to do more to prepare for the large increase in patients who will have health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, according to a team of researchers from the Center for Studying Health System Change. Researchers interviewed health care leaders [...]
What’s The Matter With California’s Health Market?
Government health officials are outraged as health insurers across the country have begun warning of major premium increases as Obamacare kicks into high gear this year and next. Consumers in multiple states will see rate increases of 20 percent or more, and some could see their premiums double. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones [...]
Jones Announces $1.7 Million in Settlement Payments Aid to California by Insurers
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced today that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) has received payments totaling $1.7 million from two additional insurance companies that have entered settlements with the Department as a result of its investigation into their use of the "Death Master" database. "These settlements are another [...]
Health Costs Hurting Retirement Business Owners Say
Seven-in-ten American business owners consider rising health care costs to the primary threat to their current or future retirement, according to a new Millionaire Corner survey of 1,100 investors. “The cost of health insurance” has been ranked the top small-business problem for the last 25 years, according to “Small-Business Problems and [...]
Multi-Status Families Brace for Health Care Reform
Federal health reform will leave out California's two million undocumented immigrants, a dilemma for multi-status families. Nationwide there are 8.8 million families in which some family members are here lawfully and some aren’t. They are what policy wonks call multi-status families — that is, within one family, there are people who are [...]
Feds OK California’s Health Exchange Plan
California received conditional approval from the federal government to establish a health care exchange. California is among seven states that received the go-ahead from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate its own health insurance exchange, one of the provisions under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. The goal [...]
