Extended Special Enrollment Period Through May 15th due to COVID-19 by Barbara Kempen | Feb 4, 2021 | Affordable Health Insurance, COVID-19On January 28th, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to allow uninsured Americans to still apply for health insurance from February 15th to May 15th, 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This allows people who are currently uninsured to be able...
How will health insurance change under President Elect Biden? by Barbara Kempen | Dec 21, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Short-term medicalUnder president-elect Joe Biden, we will likely see an expansion of the Affordable Care Act depending on a few key events. For one, how will the Supreme Court rule on the current challenge to the ACA? Secondly, will the Democrats control the Senate after the runoff...
How will the Supreme Court Rule on the ACA? by Barbara Kempen | Oct 26, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa MonicaThe Supreme Court is expected to begin hearing legal arguments over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or PPACA, more commonly referred to the ACA for short, on November 10th, 2020 with a ruling expected by June of 2021. One of the...
Covered CA released preliminary 2020 Renewal Rates by Barbara Kempen | Jul 10, 2019 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa MonicaOn July 9th, 2019, Covered CA released its preliminary rates for the individual and family market with a weighted average premium increase of 0.8%, a major relief from the 8.4% weighted average premium increases Californians saw from 2015-2019. Furthermore, Covered CA...
Newsom Proposes New Health Insurance Mandate & Tax Penalty by Barbara Kempen | Jan 10, 2019 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa MonicaOn Governor Newsom’s first day in office, Newsom proposed reinstating the tax penalty for not having Affordable Care Act-compliant, comprehensive health insurance coverage. The proposal is in response to the recent removal of the federal tax penalty for not...