Latest California Healthline Stories
Short-Term Health Plans: The Pros And Cons
“You could get one of these plans, pay the uninsured tax penalty and still pay less.”
Unreasonable Rate Hike? Proposed Legislation Would Tell You About It
A new Senate bill proposes that the state inform consumers when state officials find health insurance rates to be unjustified.
Health Insurers Grilled Over Merger
State officials had some pointed questions for health insurers last week during a hearing on the proposed sale of Health Net to Centene.
Democratic Candidates Debate ‘Single-Payer,’ But What Does That Mean?
The phrase often used for government-run health care means different things to different people. Here are five points to help explain the Democrats’ policy clash.
Hearing On Mergers May Get Testy
A hearing this week examining a merger of health insurance companies — one of three proposed deals pending approval — could get a little heated.
Hispanic Children’s Uninsured Rate Hits Record Low, Study Finds
About 300,000 Hispanic children gained insurance in 2014 from 2013, dropping the number of uninsured to 1.7 million, researchers said, and two-thirds of 1.7 million uninsured Hispanic kids live in five states.
Slipping Between Medicaid And Marketplace Coverage Can Leave Consumers Confused
KHN’s consumer columnist answers questions about how people can handle moving between the government health plan for low-income residents and the private plans offered on the federal health law’s exchanges.
Agreement may be near for replacing California’s $1.1 billion managed care organization tax, which now looks nothing like it did when it was first proposed.
Scrutinizing Aetna-Humana Deal
At a public hearing yesterday weighing the merits and drawbacks of the Aetna/Humana merger, the director of the state Department of Managed Health Care said she’s wary of health insurance consolidation.
Health Reform in 2015: A Year in Review
From the King v. Burwell decision to the ultimate “doc fix,” there were some major developments in health care reform this year.