Insurance

Rate Hikes Hidden in California’s Glowing Obamacare Reviews

November 26, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<div class="article"> <p>During a meeting last week, officials at <a href="https://www.coveredca.com/">Covered California</a>, the state’s much-touted health insurance marketplace, made a <a href="http://www.healthexchange.ca.gov/BoardMeetings/Documents/November%2021,%202013/PPT%20-%20CCIIO%20Transition%20Policy.pdf">pretty stark admission</a>: Half of the approximately 1 million consumers whose health plans are being canceled will pay more under the Affordable Care Act.</p>

Lessons From The Cancellation Crisis

November 22, 2013  ·  Jamie Court

<p><a href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/cancelledratehikes.pdf"><img alt="" src="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/images/jamiecourt_updated.jpg" style="width: 211px; height: 287px; float: right; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px;" />An analysis just released by California’s health insurance exchange</a>, Covered California, offers the first real insight into the depth of the Obamacare cancellation crisis.<br /> <br />

Covered Calif. Rejects Obama’s Health Plan Cancellation Fix

November 22, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>On Thursday, the Covered California board unanimously decided that insurers will not be allowed to continue selling policies in 2014 that do not meet the Affordable Care Act's minimum coverage requirements, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/21/states-insurance-decision-aca/3664511/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>USA Today</em></a> reports (Kennedy/Welch, <em>USA Today</em>, 11/21).</p>

Consumer Watchdog Slams ‘Covered California’ Obamacare

November 22, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Wow, Jamie Court of Consumer Watchdog is unleashing a severe volley against Covered California, saying the state Obamacare system's new data show that nearly one-half million Californians are being cancelled and will be forced to buy more expensive insurance.</p>

Covered California: Canceled Policies Will Stay Canceled

November 22, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Steve Goldsberry said he knows what California's decision not to allow canceled health insurance policies to be extended will cost him.<br /> <br /> "Six grand a year," said the Simi Valley general contractor who believes he may end up paying $500 more a month because his current policy doesn't meet the Affordable Care Act's standards. "I had insurance that was adequate. I got to choose. Now I no longer have a choice."<br /> <br />

California Will Not Extend Canceled Health Policies

November 21, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<div id="text-pages"> <div class="page" style="display: block;"> <p><strong>(11-21) 15:46 PST SACRAMENTO</strong> -- Covered California, the state's health exchange, on Thursday rejected President Obama's request to let insurers extend their current health policies, a decision that affects about 1 million Californians who have coverage that doesn't comply with the requirements of the federal health law.</p>

California’s Health Exchange Spurns Obama Directive

November 21, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p class="bodytext"><span id="iba2_siteCss"><span id="MNGiSection">SACRAMENTO -- It's all systems go for the federal health care law, at least in California, after the state on Thursday spurned President Barack Obama's directive that would allow millions of Americans to extend their current health insurance policies through 2014.</span></span></p>

A California-Style Fix for Obamacare’s Runaway Premiums

November 19, 2013  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<p><img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-2718" alt="" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/images_Harvey.jpg" style="width: 211px; height: 216px; float: right; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px;" width="220" height="225" />Regulation of insurance companies, introduced by Proposition 103, could repair a loophole in the Affordable Care Act.<br /> <br />

Op-Ed Commentary: A California-Style Fix For Obamacare’s Runaway Premiums

November 19, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p><em>Harvey Rosenfield, founder of Consumer Watchdog, is the author of Proposition 103. His Op-Ed Commentary below was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, November 19, 2013.  The online version can be viewed <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rosenfield-obamacare-prop-103-20131119,0,2059028.story#axzz2l73jkImZ">here</a>.</em></p> <p><b>Regulation of insurance companies, introduced by Proposition 103, could repair a loophole in the Affordable Care Act.</b></p>

What Works: A Review of Auto Insurance Rate Regulation in America and How Best Practices Save Billions of Dollars

November 17, 2013  ·  Doug Heller

Over the past quarter century, auto insurance expenditures in America have risen by more than 40 percent. Consumers in some states are paying 80 percent,...

Pennsylvania Auto Insurance Picture Not As Rosy As First Indicated

November 16, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<p>At first glance, the statistics revealed in a state-by-state analysis of auto insurance costs make Pennsylvania look pretty good.</p> <p>"Report praised Pennsylvania car insurance model," celebrated a headline in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, referring to Tuesday's release of a 75-page "Review of Auto Insurance Rate Regulation in America" by the Consumer Federation of America.</p>

If You Thought Your Auto Insurance Rates Have Been Rising, You’re Right

November 13, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

<div class="entry-content"> <p style="clear:left;">Nebraska consumers have seen the nation's biggest percentage increase in auto insurance rates since 1988, a consumer group said Tuesday in recommending that all states adopt tough, California-style regulation of the auto insurance industry.</p> <p>Iowa's increase has been above-average, too, the Consumer Federation of America said in a report that marks the 25th anniversary of a California law passed by voters as Proposition 103 in 1988.</p>