{"id":15257,"date":"2013-10-01T00:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:54:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-01T00:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:54:20","slug":"covered-california-launches-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/01\/covered-california-launches-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Covered California Launches Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/CoveredCA.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/DOT-COM-LINK1_zpsd770da93.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=right alt=\" photo DOT-COM-LINK1_zpsd770da93.jpg\"\/><\/a><i>State to begin enrollment in &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; plans for 2014<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans look like they are willing to shut the government down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/09\/30\/1242628\/-Senate-Democrats-reject-House-GOP-s-latest-extortion-demands\">put the brakes on ObamaCare<\/a>, but that won&#8217;t actually change Covered California&#8217;s plan to open up shop tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indeed, Covered California &#8211; the state&#8217;s version of the federal health care law &#8211; is preparing to begin enrolling customers in its health insurance exchange on Tuesday. Parts of the government would close on the same day if lawmakers in Washington don&#8217;t act on legislation to extend discretionary spending. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>California, one of 14 states rolling out its own marketplace, will mark opening day with a series of events in Sacramento, Fresno, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. The federal government will oversee the launch in the remaining states.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2013\/09\/shutdown-or-not---california-launching-obamacare-tuesday.html#storylink=cpy\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, if you want to see how much, roughly, your health insurance will cost under the new law, it is already available. Just head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/CoveredCA.com\">CoveredCA.com<\/a> and click on &#8220;Shop and Compare&#8221; to get a few quotes for ACA-eligible plans.<\/p>\n<p>If you have employer insurance, this won&#8217;t really change much for you. However, for those of us with individual plans, the new exchange will open up new options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/CoveredCA.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/DOT-COM-LINK1_zpsd770da93.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=right alt=\" photo DOT-COM-LINK1_zpsd770da93.jpg\"\/><\/a><i>State to begin enrollment in &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; plans for 2014<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans look like they are willing to shut the government down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/09\/30\/1242628\/-Senate-Democrats-reject-House-GOP-s-latest-extortion-demands\">put the brakes on ObamaCare<\/a>, but that won&#8217;t actually change Covered California&#8217;s plan to open up shop tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indeed, Covered California &#8211; the state&#8217;s version of the federal health care law &#8211; is preparing to begin enrolling customers in its health insurance exchange on Tuesday. Parts of the government would close on the same day if lawmakers in Washington don&#8217;t act on legislation to extend discretionary spending. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>California, one of 14 states rolling out its own marketplace, will mark opening day with a series of events in Sacramento, Fresno, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. The federal government will oversee the launch in the remaining states.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2013\/09\/shutdown-or-not---california-launching-obamacare-tuesday.html#storylink=cpy\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, if you want to see how much, roughly, your health insurance will cost under the new law, it is already available. Just head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/CoveredCA.com\">CoveredCA.com<\/a> and click on &#8220;Shop and Compare&#8221; to get a few quotes for ACA-eligible plans.<\/p>\n<p>If you have employer insurance, this won&#8217;t really change much for you. However, for those of us with individual plans, the new exchange will open up new options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-15257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22","tag-79"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Y5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}