Who pays for all the advertisements for Covered California (lawyers, house)

[CA4Now]

Double check your policy...

Barr urges Trump administration to back off call to fully strike down Obamacare:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/polit...urt/index.html

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“The average life expectancy in South L.A. is 10 years shorter than the California average.”

Why? Because 12% of the patients have no insurance at all and 70% have Medi-Cal, which means that the hospital has trouble recruiting doctors to work for the low reimbursement rates offered by the government health program.

And as if that isn’t a sad enough commentary on how fractured and unbalanced the healthcare system is in the world’s wealthiest nation ever, consider this:

The state’s projected $54-billion budget deficit has led to proposed cuts that include elimination of a supplemental fund that was established for King Community Hospital when it opened five years ago. Batchlor said her hospital stands to lose $30 million.

Inglewood resident Tony Wafford and his wife Diane Walker lost four relatives to COVID-19 in a week. Wafford said he was reminded of words spoken in 1966 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”

“That’s more than 50 years ago,” Wafford said, “and it’s absolutely worse now.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...glewood-couple

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In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act. The late-night court filing came on the same day the government reported that close to half a million people who lost their health insurance amid the economic shutdown have gotten coverage through HealthCare.gov.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...able-care-act/

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Covered California Increases Investments in Marketing and Outreach to Reach Uninsured Californians During the COVID-19 Pandemic:
https://www.coveredca.com/newsroom/n...d-19-pandemic/

Pandemic Wipes Out Insurance in Record Numbers
About 5.4M people lost coverage from February to May:
https://www.newser.com/story/293540/...-pandemic.html

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Before the advent of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, health insurers would routinely refuse coverage to people who had pre-existing medical conditions, such as diabetes, cancer or allergies.

Even pregnancy could be deemed a pre-existing condition that an insurer could refuse to cover.

The healthcare law, often called Obamacare, barred insurers from this kind of discrimination, protecting the millions of Americans who live with medical conditions.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...-order-do-that

[Redflag71]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Double check your policy...

Barr urges Trump administration to back off call to fully strike down Obamacare:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/polit...urt/index.html

What policy? CA health insurance is too expensive for a self employed individual like me.

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Originally Posted by Redflag71

What policy? CA health insurance is too expensive for a self employed individual like me.

You can write off your premiums if you're self employed.

[Racer46]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

You can write off your premiums if you're self employed.

You have to make enough to make the payments. Not everyone does.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Racer46

You have to make enough to make the payments. Not everyone does.

As opposed to what you'd pay if you or someone in your family had an accident and had no health insurance?

https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/HealthCarein...Uninsured.aspx

[Racer46]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

As opposed to what you'd pay if you or someone in your family had an accident and had no health insurance?

https://www.dmhc.ca.gov/HealthCarein...Uninsured.aspx

Bad either way.