Recent Covered California Analysis Prompts Change

After a recent analysis of Covered California, efforts will be changed to focus more on two important issues during the next enrollment period, which starts on November 15th:

1. Increasing the number of minority enrollment
2. Increasing the number of people who enroll online

Over 1.4 million people have enrolled as of October, and 80% of those premiums have been paid. 40% of the enrollees who are considered to be at the federal poverty level enrolled online. 39% of these enrollees used insurance agents to assist them. Specifically, the analysis found that Latinos were extremely underrepresented, even though Latinos make up a large part of the uninsured population. A bill is currently in the works to help increase the diversity of the board.

The use of the California State University system worked well, and decreased the number of uninsured students from 25% to 10%.

For any further questions about health insurance, please contact the insurance agents at Sackett & Associates Insurance Services, located in Sonoma County!