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Assurant To Leave California Health Insurance Market In 2016

Assurant, a company who just recently successfully entered the California market, has just announced that they are leaving the health insurance market in 2016, all together. Why could this be? All health insurance carriers are receiving the costs of implementing the...

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Paying Cash for Health Insurancein California at 7-Eleven ?

According to an article published by NPR, Californians are now able to pay cash for their monthly health insurance premiums at over 680 locations across California. The L.A. Care health insurance, one of the carriers offered at Covered California, is available at...

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Lesson To Learn From The German Wings Tragedy

Many of my clients ask me how I feel about the disaster of the German Wings airplane crash, being an American/German citizen. This tragedy not only saddens me, but is also incomprehensible. A NPR interview  with  Kenneth Feinberg, the Attorney who was in charge of the...

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Tax Forms Introduced With The Affordable Care Act

Californians who applied for health insurance  through Covered California in 2014 will receive within the next weeks a 1095- A form. This is a health Insurance Medical Statement. In Section 1 it lists the health insurance policy name, the health insurance you...

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No-Insurance Tax Penalty Increase

The annual tax penalty for not carrying health insurance in California will increase in 2015 to $ 325 per adult and $ 162.50 per child, or, 2 % of your annual income (whatever is higher). The maximum penalty will be $975 per family  or roughly 2 % of total income...

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