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Report: Millions in CA will remain uninsured, despite health care law
A new report from the California Healthcare Foundation offers several sobering statistics about the uninsured population in California, just as some of those who have signed up for health coverage through Covered California will see their coverage begin Jan. 1.
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Privacy expert: Covered California privacy actions ‘worrisome’
It isn’t just the federal Affordable Care Act website, healthcare.gov, that has suffered unacceptable “glitches” that President Obama has decried. So has our state’s implementation, Covered California, whose problems include low Latino enrollment. One of the most disconcerting, and persistent, worries
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Does CA suffer a doctor shortage?
Most of the criticism of the Affordable Care Act rollout has been aimed toward rate shocks, canceled insurance policies and the disastrous federal exchange website. But one area in which the law is succeeding — particularly in the eyes of
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Tech experts wary about healthcare.gov progress
In the wake of the disastrous healthcare.gov rollout, Americans began to wonder when the federal exchange website would be fixed. Inevitably, it was assumed, the website would have to start working. But when? The White House announced in October that
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Latino enrollment in Covered California lags
In the wake of the disastrous healthcare.gov rollout, many defendants of the Affordable Care Act began to look for a bright spot. They soon pointed to Covered California, California’s health insurance exchange, as a national model. There are several differences
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Actual state residents would struggle to recognize Paul Krugman’s California
What is it about California that inspires such insistently cheerful happy talk from New York Times columnist/Princeton professor Paul Krugman? This spring he claimed that California was in the middle of a roaring comeback. Has he ever been here? Read
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CA says ‘no’ to Obamacare freebies, makes own law
One of the most liberal states in the nation has said no thanks to a key Obamacare provision and instead is enacting its own version of the law. California has decided to skirt the “Buy 1, Get 3 Free!”
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ACA disrupts dental coverage market
Since its disastrous rollout, the bad press hasn’t stopped coming for Obamacare. First, the health insurance exchange website — which cost $600 million to create — simply didn’t work. (Three 20-year-old programmers, however, managed to fix one of the site’s
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Obamacare: National media finally turn on Obama — and Nancy Pelosi
The national media are finally done with covering up the incompetence of Barack Obama. Savor this amazing lead from Ron Fournier of National Journal, the former AP Washington bureau chief who still helps set conventional wisdom about national politics: “Incompetence,
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My experience ‘enrolling’ in Obamacare/Covered California
With all the hoopla surrounding Obamacare, I decided to call and sign up for its implementation in our state, Covered California. I dialed 1-800-300-1506. Jose answered. He was polite but rattled when I told him I’d rather talk to him,
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