by Barbara Kempen | Jan 13, 2021 | Tax Credits
With the new year comes a new you but also, unfortunately, dealing with taxes for last year. When you file your 2020 taxes later this year (Tax day is Thursday, April 15th), you will need to make sure that you have your 1095 tax document which will be distributed by...
by Barbara Kempen | Jan 11, 2021 | Telemedicine
Many of us could not imagine that the pandemic is taking this long and that we still experience an increase in Covid-19 cases. This, along with the most recent political events of the riots at the capital and economic uncertainty creating enormous stress on many...
by Barbara Kempen | Dec 21, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Short-term medical
Under 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...
by Barbara Kempen | Dec 18, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, COVID-19, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
On December 10th the Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine and on December 18th Moderna with their mRNA-1273 vaccine received the FDA emergency release authorization for their Covid-19 vaccines. Due to the fact that initial supply is scarce in comparison to demand,...
by Barbara Kempen | Sep 24, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Telemedicine
Surprisingly, despite us still being in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, for 2021, we are seeing a record low rate increase of a weighted average of 0.6% through Covered CA and across the state of California. If you shop and switch to the lowest-cost silver plan,...