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Seniors Seek Strategic Plan on Aging
High on the Senior Legislature’s agenda for next year — hammered out during the group’s annual four-day meeting last week — is a strategic plan to deal with California’s aging population.
Good Obamacare News For Veterans And Low-Income Californians
Q: Will deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses, which are quite steep, be subsidized too? Or will the policy holder be responsible for bearing the cost? A: “Tax credit” this and “tax credit” that. You’re probably sick of that term. I know my editor is. Tax credits get the glory because they will significantly reduce health insurance costs […]
New Map Shows Health Technology Reach
Use of health information technology is expanding rapidly in California, according to a new map released yesterday showing the status of health information exchange in each of the state’s 58 counties.
Campaign Advocates Health Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants in California
On the heels of three new state laws making life easier for undocumented immigrants, the California Endowment is launching a campaign urging the state to find a way to get health coverage for the estimated one million undocumented Californians left out of the Affordable Care Act.
Rural Medi-Cal Managed Care Effort Begins
Medi-Cal managed care coverage has spread to 28 rural counties, completing the state’s goal of launching managed care plans in all 58 California counties before Jan. 1, 2014.
Insurance Broker Wants To Be in Exchange
Several prominent legislators are supporting a push by a Web-based health insurance broker to be included in the state’s health benefit exchange enrollment effort.
Inland Empire Clinics Work To Ease Demand on Hospital EDs
Community health centers in the recession-battered Inland Empire are focusing on collaboration to steer patients to primary care settings and away from emergency departments.
Opening Month Numbers Indicate Intense Interest in Calif. Exchange
The first month of the exchange is wrapping up — with more than two million Web inquiries and more than 200,000 phone discussions about health coverage through Covered California.
What Medicare Part D Can — and Can’t — Teach Us About the Affordable Care Act
Increasingly, observers are cautioning: Don’t rush to judgment about the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces, because the launch of Medicare Part D was rocky, too. But comparing the two programs makes less and less sense as the weeks go by.
Assembly Member Urges Senate to Create New Committee on Aging, Long-Term Care
Assembly member Mariko Yamada (D-Davis), named Legislator of the Year by the Senior Legislature yesterday, is urging the state Senate to form a subcommittee on aging and long-term care.