by Barbara Kempen | Mar 9, 2022 | Special Enrollment Period
Once the Special Enrollment Period started on February 1st, 2022, anyone looking to enroll in or change their health insurance must now have a qualifying life event to do so. A qualifying life event is a major life event that must occur within the last 60 days in...
by Barbara Kempen | Mar 30, 2021 | Affordable Health Insurance, COVID-19, Tax Credits
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, more of America’s middle class will be eligible to receive health insurance premium assistance through Covered CA statewide or through Healthcare.gov nationwide. The premium assistance cutoff has been bumped up from 400% of...
by Barbara Kempen | Mar 22, 2021 | Affordable Health Insurance, COVID-19, Tax Credits
Starting on April 12th, 2021, Covered California will have a new Special Enrollment Period which will run through the end of 2021. This new Special Enrollment Period will allow Californians, who will be eligible due to the American Rescue Plan, to apply for health...
by Barbara Kempen | Jul 10, 2019 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
On 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...
by Barbara Kempen | Jul 2, 2019 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
On June 27th, Governor Gavin Newsom signed his first state budget into law for 2020. With the new state budget, Senate Bill 78 was also signed into law which reintroduces the tax penalty for not having minimum essential health insurance beginning in 2020. California...
