California Affordable Health Insurance

About 3,400 California residents whose health insurance was canceled by Kaiser Permanente, Health Net and PacifiCare soon will be notified that they might be eligible for new coverage and compensation for medical bills incurred while they were uninsured, the Los Angeles Times reports. The state has been investigating the insurers over claims that the companies [...]

The stories of everyday Americans will make the case for guaranteed affordable health insurance and health care. The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee today launched a new series of profiles of real American patients that have seen their healthcare denied or delayed at the hands of insurance corporations, the kind of abuses that would [...]

California health insurers say legislation that would require them to spend at least 85% of premium revenue on health benefit expenses would not address the underlying causes of rising health care costs or improve the quality of care, the Wall Street Journal reports. The bill, which the state Legislature approved on Sunday, aims to hold [...]

Rising premiums and limited subsidies have made California’s Major Risk Medical Insurance Program — a high-risk pool that provides health coverage to uninsurable residents with pre-existing health conditions — “either unaffordable, unavailable or ineffective for many of those who most need health insurance,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Under MRMIP, residents pay about two-thirds of [...]