State and local officials urged Bay Area residents Wednesday to sign up for health insurance coverage through the state’s health insurance marketplace by Friday to benefit from lower premiums.
More than 450,000 residents across the Bay Area, including more than 103,000 who are uninsured, are eligible for lower health care premiums if they sign up for insurance through Covered California by the end of the week, according to state officials.
The reduced costs are the result of federal tax credits included in the American Rescue Plan, the pandemic relief package Congress passed last month.
“I think this is a golden opportunity to take advantage of additional subsidies that the Rescue Plan will include but also some subsidies the state of California has invested in,” La Clinica de La Raza CEO Jane Garcia said Wednesday in a virtual briefing. “I think this is a golden opportunity to get covered and to catch up.”
The tax credits in the relief package are also expected to lower premiums by an average of $180 per month for roughly 280,000 Bay Area residents who already get insurance through Covered California, which the state formed under the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Those savings will automatically be applied to existing customers’ accounts, according to Covered California officials.
State officials expect the tax credits will save state residents more than $3 billion in total through the end of 2022, when they are set to expire.
“The new and expanded financial help provided by the American Rescue Plan can help people throughout the Bay Area get covered and stay covered by lowering their premiums and putting money back into their pockets,” Covered California executive director Peter Lee said in a statement. “The American Rescue Plan provides the most significant consumer cost savings since the Affordable Care Act began, but in order for many people to make the most of that savings, they need to act before the month ends.”
Residents can visit https://www.coveredca.com or contact Covered California at (800) 300-1506 for information on signing up for health care coverage.
Wait I thought oscama care was supposed to be affordable and for everyone
You preach socialism yet the hospitals are taking in the money by us being forced to use them reguardless of the county care mentality and pushing of pills
The scam has been pushed for masses and is your saying people still have no care but the people who were choosing their own facility and doctors and care level got bent over and forced to use crap coverage or pay astronomical amounts
What a scam
And now pushing again for what so the newscum can tout the new numbers thinking he can save his sham of a governorship
Just stop with the political motivated garbage forcing us to comply with politicians wants and scams
It is allready supposed to be affordable why does it have to have fed money to reduse fees and why are they so high that they need fed money during a time when your socialist experiments should be actually helping all of us during this virus
Instead your showing how much of a scam mandatory socialist healthcare is
And how politicians direct the care narrative for their gain
Just stop and allow the people to be free once more
Democrats pushing racism and rights and equity
While scamming those same people with false promises and even worse care
I hope the politicians scamper to please unions and leave American people on the streets in favor of bringing in thousands of illegals and housing them
“La Raza” is Spanish for “The Race”, so why is it OK for Mexicans to say brown power but not for whites to say the same?
#LaRazaIsRacist
You’re upset because you can’t say “white power?” Go ahead, say it. Anything else?
Every group is allowed to be proud of themselves except white people. Whites are supposed to be guilty of their success (which all races benefit massively from) and to be hateful of their own people.
That’s nonsense. You’ve never been to the Highland Games, or Oktoberfest, The Italian American Heritage Festival & Parade, the Oakland or Concord Greek festival? I’ve been to all of those and people are joyously celebrating their ancestry at them.
Someone should open a La Clinica de Blanco and see how that goes.
Chuq: Comparing La Raza to those other groups or activities is nuts. La Raza is about power and conflict, while the others are celebrations of differences. I went to the La Raza and Highland Games California websites and picked five phrases each uses in their descriptions:
La Raza’s website phrases: empowering, advocating, redress abuses, join forces, racially unjust
Highland Games website phrases: kilted mile race, Scottish country dancing, sheep dog trials, solo piping and drumming, massed bands
If you cannot see the difference, I don’t know what to say.
ouch bunch of warm feelings
for the bias racist hypocritical fascist establishment
americans out illegals in seems to be the mantra
the politicians dont deny it
the state does not deny it
the potus does not deny it
the dem voters dont deny it
my question is when do the effigy’s of beheadings start like they were allowed for trump
or are any defamations towards a potus verboten
now that weekend at biden is holding us down with their knee
Part of the ‘welfare-for-everyone’ roll out – he who controls your healthcare, controls you. Your papers pleazzzz …