by Barbara Kempen | Mar 23, 2018 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Uncategorized
Have you noticed your health insurance premiums increasing 10-20% a year over the last few years? Unfortunately, these dramatic rate increases over the last few years have been the norm. For the Los Angeles region alone, we saw a 13% weighted average rate increase for...
by Barbara Kempen | Feb 6, 2018 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Uncategorized
Many Californians still do not understand why they cannot enroll all the time for health insurance. In order to avoid that people enroll only when they need medical assistance, the Affordable Care Act implemented specific Enrollment Periods. In the Open Enrollment...
by Barbara Kempen | Nov 7, 2017 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Uncategorized
The Open Enrollment Period to enroll in a health insurance plan began November 1st, 2017 through January 31st, 2018 in California. In California, many families who are not eligible for subsidies on Covered California, the premium increase in their health insurance is...
by Barbara Kempen | Oct 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
After recently visiting Covered California’s annual event on Open Enrollment Period 2018, there is plenty of updates to cover. For this year, Covered California came up with the slogan “Don’t roll the dice on your health.” It is a great theme for insurance which is...
by Barbara Kempen | Jul 27, 2016 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Uncategorized
Health Insurance Premiums for individual policyholders will be increasing substantially in 2017. Covered California announced a state-wide average increase of 13.2 %, while PPO carriers Anthem and Blue Shield reported increases of 19.9% and higher. In contrast to...
by Barbara Kempen | Jun 19, 2016 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Life Insurance, Uncategorized
Getting a divorce brings a new type of change to your everyday life. For some people this change is wanted, yet for others, it is unexpected and heartbreaking. For all of us though, it is a change, requiring one to revisit all aspects of one’s financial planning and...