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Blue Shield of California this week disclosed the new health insurance plans they will offer beginning on July 1st. These plans will replace all but 4 of the companies current plans, and will add maternity care and mental health therapy for Autism. The only existing plans that will continue to be offered after July 1st [...]

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If you were a business owner, and knew that you could save a lot of money by dropping your company health insurance plan and put your employees into the health insurance exchange where they could get similar coverage, would you do it? That’s the question that the House Ways and Means Committee was trying to [...]

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A new study, by Medicare Trustee Charles Blahous, shows that the original projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Medicare Trustees compared the Affordable Care Act (ACA) cost and savings projections to a baseline scenario that is different from what we actually face. This new analysis caused a great deal of criticism, but [...]

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Governor Jerry Brown’s administration is planning to implement some parts of the Affordable Care Act (Health Care Reform) even if the Federal Supreme Court overturns part or all of the reform bill. State Health and Human Services Secretary Diana Dooley said that California should implement it’s own version of Health Care Reform, and require that [...]

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Consumer Watchdog, a special interest group with strong ties to trial lawyers, is gathering signatures to put a health insurance rate regulation measure on the November 2012 ballot. The measure seeks to create a new bureaucracy, funded by insurance companies, to create a new layer of regulations on top of existing state and federal regulations [...]

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According to the California Endowment, a private foundation concentrating on health issues, the average California family pays an additional $1400 in yearly premiums in order to cover the costs of uninsured Californians. And because the Federal Supreme Court may throw out the mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act, the state of California is preparing [...]

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With the beginning of April it becomes time to start running quotes for individual and family health insurance rates with a May 1st effective start date. The new rates and changes that Anthem Blue Cross of California announced in March now become very evident. Many Anthem customers that have older health insurance plans have seen [...]

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The initial arguments in the Supreme Court hearings about the individual mandate seem to indicate that the mandate will not be accepted. The general tone of the discussions had the 4 liberal Justices supporting the mandate, and the 4 conservative Justices against the mandate. Judge Clarence Thomas sat quietly and listened to the proceedings but [...]

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Yesterday the legal boxing began with the first round being about the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA) of 1867, and whether or not the court could actually hear arguments about the health care reform individual mandate if no penalties (paid to the IRS) had been paid yet. The AIA is the legal basis of all tax collections, [...]

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Hospitals all across America are struggling to find ways to reduce costs and eliminate duplication of efforts. These cost cutting measures are part of the hospitals preparation to survive once health care reform fully begins in 2014. In California, hospitals are trying to figure out how to make due with fewer patients, because the amount [...]

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A new report by the actuarial firm Millman Inc. says that a new tax on health insurers’ premium revenues will be passed on to consumers, and will cause problems for state Medicaid programs. The health care reform premium tax, which starts in 2014, was intended to help pay for coverage of the 32 million uninsured [...]

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Governor Brown’s plans to charge low-income patients for medical care they receive through the Medi-Cal program were rejected by Federal health officials. The copays were part of Governor Brown’s budget balancing “act”, and it was hoped that the state would save $296 Million by having poor people make co-payments. Over 8 million are in the [...]

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How much someone, or a company, is willing to spend is what determines how easy it is to find an affordable health insurance plan. A few individuals might just buy an expensive comprehensive plan that costs hundreds of dollars a month, but most would prefer to find a plan that costs a lot less. The [...]

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Millions оf Californian’s dо nоt hаvе аnу dental insurance, and that includes people in San Diego. That’s pretty sad. You see people every day that have some sort of dental issue that’s never been fixed. By the age of 50, the average person is missing four to five teeth, with higher numbers living in the valley, [...]

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In the search to find good maternity insurance California mothers have found fewer options to choose from over the last few years. However, new mandates in 2012 will require that all health insurance plans in California provide maternity health coverage. Both the Individual/Family plans as well as the Group plans will be affected by these [...]

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Find an update to the best California Maternity Health Insurance plans, with the most recent price changes from the major Insurance Companies on the California Maternity Health Insurance page. Notable changes were a price increase for the Blue Cross Select HMO and a price reduction for the Kaiser Permanente 0/1500 Deductible (HSA) plan. Overall the [...]

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Palomar Pomerado Health provides a large variety of free and low-cost health education classes. The classes are led by physicians and other professionals, and in some cases also provide free screenings depending upon the class topic. The Featured Class in October is : Breast Health 101 Tuesday, October 25 5-6pm Exhibits and Screenings 6-7:30pm Class [...]

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Between 2007 and 2009 the number of uninsured women increased by 12.8%, and the March of Dimes PeriStats database shows that 22.3% of women in their child bearing years are uninsured. So it’s not uncommon to be pregnant without health insurance in the US, and the situation has been getting worse each year. For women [...]

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SPF Insurance is proud to announce a new resource page targeting the needs of women in California who are pregnant without insurance. This new page, “Health Insurance For Pregnant Women,” provides information on 7 ways that women who are pregnant without health insurance can find coverage to help protect themselves and their babies. The number [...]

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The federal government, which pays most of the cost for this program, just gave California permission to lower the rates on the insurance plan by up to 24%. The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan California (PCIP California) was created as part of the Health Care Reform Bill last spring, and serves Californian’s that have been denied [...]

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