Inside the Ambitious (And Affordable) Plan To Bring ‘Health Care For All’ to California
By Dan Diamond
Some lawmakers and advocates are arguing that it’s time to expand health coverage to California’s undocumented immigrants. And they say that this year, the numbers are on their side.
Calif. Must Deliver on Promises of Care for New Medi-Cal Beneficiaries, Opinion Piece Argues
In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece, Anna Gorman, a senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News, argues that “California has already demonstrated to the rest of the country that it can dramatically cut its rate of uninsured, largely by increasing the size of Medi-Cal” and that the state now must “show that its public insurance program can actually deliver the care its new enrollees are counting on.” Gorman notes that 2.2 million residents enrolled in Medi-Cal since January, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 11 million. Los Angeles Times.
96% of Californians Picked Just Four Health Plans Through Covered California. Are Small Plans Getting Squeezed Out?
By Dan Diamond
Early data suggest that customers are using the new health insurance exchange to pick plans from large, familiar companies like Anthem and Kaiser, even if plans from smaller companies are comparable in price.
