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In the most recent data from Covered California, (for Oct. 1 to Feb. 28 enrollment), Asians advanced to \u003ca href=\"http://news.coveredca.com/2014/03/covered-california-begins-countdown-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">22.9 percent \u003c/a>of all enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Licensed insurance brokers can sell customers plans on the Covered California marketplace, but they must first be specially certified to do so. Covered California says 40 percent of its total Covered California enrollments are coming via these certified insurance agents. But within certain Asian sub-populations, the percentage is much higher. Here's Covered California's breakdown:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>57 percent of Chinese enrollments are through certified insurance agents (CIAs)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>65 percent of Vietnamese enrollments are through CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>70 percent of Korean enrollments are through CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These numbers \"suggest that the Asian agents are a driving force in helping Covered CA exceed our enrollment goal in Asian communities,\" Wendy McAnelly, a public information officer for Covered California, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This information was not a big surprise to Simon Chew. He runs \u003ca href=\"http://www.simon888.com/obamacare/free-quote-apply-obamacare-coveredca/\" target=\"_blank\">Ehealth-Plans\u003c/a>, an insurance business with four offices in San Francisco. All his agents are trilingual -- in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chew estimates he's signed up 2,000 people since the Covered California marketplace opened last October, and half of them had been uninsured. He sees a difference between how Caucasians shop and how his Chinese clients shop. While what he calls the \"mainstream market\" is comfortable shopping online, the Chinese want to do business face-to-face, with someone of a similar background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's how, culturally, Asians do business,\" Chew said. \"They like to stick to their own kind because of communication convenience.\" Chew also complained that too much Covered California advertising is focused on the website, as opposed to letting people know that their local insurance agents could also help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California did not have enrollment information breakdown by type for Latinos. They make up nearly half of the marketplace's pool, but only 22 percent of all enrollments. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/02/17/missteps-in-covered-californias-marketing-campaign-to-latinos/\" target=\"_blank\">Covered California has been faulted\u003c/a> for its missteps in signing up Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Asians, Latinos are generally not familiar with health insurance as a product, so this can make sign-ups more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of familiarity with health insurance may stretch to the broker community, too. Covered California has slightly more certified brokers who speak an Asian language than speak Spanish -- 15.31 percent vs. 15.06 percent -- yet Spanish speakers dwarf those who speak an Asian language in California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>15.06 percent Spanish-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 4.01 percent Mandarin-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 2.96 percent Cantonese-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 4.76 percent Korean-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 3.58 percent Vietnamese-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There is no charge to consumers who work with agents, whose commissions are paid by insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overall Successful Enrollment May Hide Gaps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Asians are not a monolithic group, advocates caution. Doreena Wong is with Advancing Justice in Los Angeles. Her group oversees the single statewide collaborative of community groups that handles outreach to Asians to encourage enrollment on Covered California. She was surprised by the success that brokers have had over community groups in sign-ups. \"I am surprised that is as high as it is,\" Wong said. \"I don't know if that means that most of the enrollees in these communities are English-speaking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community groups have long worried that those with limited-English skills would be left out of Covered California. Wong is concerned that certain immigrant groups who have less experience with insurance or universal health care in their home countries would be harder to reach. \"The united Cambodian community, Indian, Pakistani,\" she said, \"we don't know what the numbers are for those particular sub-groups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeri Shon, of the Korean Community Center of the East Bay in Oakland, said her group has had great success in signing up the monolingual clients she serves. There's universal health care in Korea, she says, so people are already comfortable with the concept of the government helping out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said in regular conference calls with other community groups held to share best practices, she's heard from other advocates who say they are having a harder time. \"The Tongan community leader says teaching the idea of insurance is very difficult,\" Shon said. \"In Tonga, people apparently only go to the hospital when they are really sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mixed-Status Families a Barrier to Enrollment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While President Obama has insisted that undocumented relatives of people who sign up for insurance \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/201076-obama-makes-o-care-pitch-to-hispanics-the\" target=\"_blank\">will not be deported\u003c/a>, many advocates think this is still a barrier, especially for Latinos. Yet there are almost certainly undocumented Asian immigrants as well, and there does not seem to be the same level of fear. Wong believes that there may be a higher percentage of mixed-status Latino families than Asian families. \"That fear may not be as pervasive (with undocumented Asian immigrants) because the face of immigration is Latino, even though there are high numbers of Asian immigrants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Asian Enrollment Likely to Get Tougher\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the modeling from UCLA and UC Berkeley, there are an estimated 370,000 Asians in the Covered California pool of potential enrollees. While their enrollment is strong, as of Feb. 28, slightly more than 160,000 had enrolled. 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Here's Covered California's breakdown:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>57 percent of Chinese enrollments are through certified insurance agents (CIAs)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>65 percent of Vietnamese enrollments are through CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>70 percent of Korean enrollments are through CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These numbers \"suggest that the Asian agents are a driving force in helping Covered CA exceed our enrollment goal in Asian communities,\" Wendy McAnelly, a public information officer for Covered California, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This information was not a big surprise to Simon Chew. He runs \u003ca href=\"http://www.simon888.com/obamacare/free-quote-apply-obamacare-coveredca/\" target=\"_blank\">Ehealth-Plans\u003c/a>, an insurance business with four offices in San Francisco. All his agents are trilingual -- in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chew estimates he's signed up 2,000 people since the Covered California marketplace opened last October, and half of them had been uninsured. He sees a difference between how Caucasians shop and how his Chinese clients shop. While what he calls the \"mainstream market\" is comfortable shopping online, the Chinese want to do business face-to-face, with someone of a similar background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's how, culturally, Asians do business,\" Chew said. \"They like to stick to their own kind because of communication convenience.\" Chew also complained that too much Covered California advertising is focused on the website, as opposed to letting people know that their local insurance agents could also help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California did not have enrollment information breakdown by type for Latinos. They make up nearly half of the marketplace's pool, but only 22 percent of all enrollments. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/02/17/missteps-in-covered-californias-marketing-campaign-to-latinos/\" target=\"_blank\">Covered California has been faulted\u003c/a> for its missteps in signing up Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Asians, Latinos are generally not familiar with health insurance as a product, so this can make sign-ups more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of familiarity with health insurance may stretch to the broker community, too. Covered California has slightly more certified brokers who speak an Asian language than speak Spanish -- 15.31 percent vs. 15.06 percent -- yet Spanish speakers dwarf those who speak an Asian language in California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>15.06 percent Spanish-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 4.01 percent Mandarin-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 2.96 percent Cantonese-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 4.76 percent Korean-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> 3.58 percent Vietnamese-speaking CIAs\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There is no charge to consumers who work with agents, whose commissions are paid by insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overall Successful Enrollment May Hide Gaps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Asians are not a monolithic group, advocates caution. Doreena Wong is with Advancing Justice in Los Angeles. Her group oversees the single statewide collaborative of community groups that handles outreach to Asians to encourage enrollment on Covered California. She was surprised by the success that brokers have had over community groups in sign-ups. \"I am surprised that is as high as it is,\" Wong said. \"I don't know if that means that most of the enrollees in these communities are English-speaking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community groups have long worried that those with limited-English skills would be left out of Covered California. 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But there are literally millions more Californians currently uninsured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those eligible for benefits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are immigrants. If you are a lawfully present immigrant you likely qualify for the benefits -- and responsibilities -- of the ACA. This means if you do not sign up for insurance by March 31, you may have to pay a fine next year on your taxes. This is either $95 per adult or 1 percent of your income, whichever is greater. For example, if you earn $30,000 a year, you might have to pay a $300 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, you may qualify for a subsidy to help you purchase health insurance. You do not need a green card to qualify. There is a long list of visas under which immigrants might be lawfully present in the U.S. Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/immigration-status-and-the-marketplace/\" target=\"_blank\">this list from the federal government\u003c/a> to see if your immigration status or visa means that you can quality for benefits. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're wondering how much you might pay for health insurance, Covered California has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/shopandcompare/#calculator\" target=\"_blank\">cost calculator\u003c/a> so you can estimate your premium. The cost calculator will also indicate if you are eligible for Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you make too much money to qualify for a subsidy, you can still purchase health insurance on the Covered California marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seek Help in Person\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California is encouraging anyone who has questions about health insurance to talk to someone in person who can help them enroll. You can seek help from a certified enrollment counselor, your county's human services agency or an insurance broker. You do not have to pay anything for these services, even from a broker. Many people helping --- counselors, county employees or brokers -- are fluent in languages besides English. Check\u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/enrollment-assistance/\" target=\"_blank\"> this list from Covered California to see where you might go for help \u003c/a>in your preferred language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Insurance for Newly Arrived Aging Parents\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States has had universal health insurance for nearly 50 years for some very specific people -- those over 65 and some people who are disabled. These groups qualify for Medicare. But because of Medicare, there has not been an insurance market for immigrants over age 65. This meant that lawfully present immigrants or naturalized citizens had no way to provide health insurance for aging parents who sought to join their families in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/health/obamacare/obamacare-guide.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">[Related: Obamacare Explained -- Just For Californians\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>; also\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/health/obamacare/obamacare-explicado.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">in Spanish]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now. Under the Affordable Care Act, Californians of all ages can purchase health insurance on Covered California, as long as they are lawfully present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/10/09/for-legal-immigrants-obamacare-has-options-for-aging-parents/\" target=\"_blank\">detailed earlier\u003c/a>, there's a lot of confusion about immigrants and the ACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanya Broder in the Oakland office of the National Immigration Law Center said that \"most of the outreach materials and most of the material online are directed at citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that the ACA seems to make the presumption that most people over 65 are receiving Medicare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there’s nothing prohibiting someone who is lawfully present in the U.S. but ineligible for Medicare or Medicaid from purchasing coverage in the exchange,” Broder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mixed Status Families\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for benefits under the ACA. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's still early days. The first open enrollment of the Obamacare marketplaces is ongoing. But the Covered California marketplace is more competitive than the 2012 individual market, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/sizing-up-exchange-market-competition/\" target=\"_blank\">new analysis\u003c/a> from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Entirely by coincidence, the study, released Monday, coincided with the news that Covered California \u003ca href=\"http://news.coveredca.com/2014/03/covered-california-reaches-1-million.html\" target=\"_blank\">had passed the million mark\u003c/a> in enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts looked at exchange data from seven states, including California. Enrollment for people buying outside exchanges, on the individual market, will not be available until later this year or early 2015, Cynthia Cox, one of the foundation's analysts noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California had a highly concentrated market before the ACA,\" Cox said. But the Covered California marketplace has both more companies with greater than 5 percent market share and the percentage marketshare of the largest company has declined, as shown in this graph from the study:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-17-at-12.24.49-PM-e1395084542155.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-18161\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-17-at-12.24.49-PM-640x517.png\" alt=\"(Kaiser Family Foundation)\" width=\"640\" height=\"517\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kaiser Family Foundation)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Anthem Blue Cross had nearly half (47 percent) of the individual market in 2012, but 30 percent of the Covered California market, as of Jan. 31. Health Net, conversely, has seen its marketshare increase substantially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Very much so,\" Cox said. \"It was only a tiny fraction before [3 percent] and now it controls over a fifth, and it's largely because they priced relatively low in Southern California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health Net now \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/news/PDFs/JanRegionalEnrollmentTables.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">leads enrollment\u003c/a> in San Diego and part of Los Angeles county. In other parts of southern California, Health Net is second in enrollment. Cox said that Covered California is the only state exchange, so far, to release regional data. It is at the local level where \"competition among insurers truly takes place,\" the analysts noted in their report. The information from Covered California \"helps us to understand the details of pricing dynamics in California,\" Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrel Ng, a spokesman for Anthem Blue Cross, did not seem overly worried. In an email, he pointed out that the analysis was done with two months still to go in open enrollment and did not look at either the non-exchange market or enrollment in grandfathered plans. \"It's premature to draw any conclusions,\" he wrote. \"Market share has changed substantially as more have enrolled via Covered California, and it's reasonable to expect that this will continue as open enrollment concludes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox said that even with the additional data about the non-exchange market by early next year, it still won't tell us the whole story. \"It will probably be at least two to three years before we're really able to know how much the ACA is changing insurance market competition,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time will also show whether those insurers that offered plans at lower premiums can maintain those prices -- or if they will have to raise prices once they start paying claims, Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenn Moore, a vice president at Health Net who oversees exchange business, is confident the company will stay the course. “The intention was that we would bid a sustainable price over the long term,” she said and cited Health Net's partnership with \"a very strong provider network\" as well as educational efforts to help consumers efficiently use the system in its efforts to keep premiums low going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this early analysis shows California -- and New York -- are seeing a more competitive environment, other states are not faring as well. In Connecticut, Wellpoint, the parent company of Anthem Blue Cross, has increased its market share from 45 percent to 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Th\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>is post has been updated to include comments from Health Net.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"Cq1qPApycsTF7WYdQyTgGQjR6d3BDpsA\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's still early days. The first open enrollment of the Obamacare marketplaces is ongoing. But the Covered California marketplace is more competitive than the 2012 individual market, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/sizing-up-exchange-market-competition/\" target=\"_blank\">new analysis\u003c/a> from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Entirely by coincidence, the study, released Monday, coincided with the news that Covered California \u003ca href=\"http://news.coveredca.com/2014/03/covered-california-reaches-1-million.html\" target=\"_blank\">had passed the million mark\u003c/a> in enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts looked at exchange data from seven states, including California. Enrollment for people buying outside exchanges, on the individual market, will not be available until later this year or early 2015, Cynthia Cox, one of the foundation's analysts noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California had a highly concentrated market before the ACA,\" Cox said. But the Covered California marketplace has both more companies with greater than 5 percent market share and the percentage marketshare of the largest company has declined, as shown in this graph from the study:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-17-at-12.24.49-PM-e1395084542155.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-18161\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-17-at-12.24.49-PM-640x517.png\" alt=\"(Kaiser Family Foundation)\" width=\"640\" height=\"517\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kaiser Family Foundation)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Anthem Blue Cross had nearly half (47 percent) of the individual market in 2012, but 30 percent of the Covered California market, as of Jan. 31. Health Net, conversely, has seen its marketshare increase substantially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Very much so,\" Cox said. \"It was only a tiny fraction before [3 percent] and now it controls over a fifth, and it's largely because they priced relatively low in Southern California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health Net now \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/news/PDFs/JanRegionalEnrollmentTables.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">leads enrollment\u003c/a> in San Diego and part of Los Angeles county. In other parts of southern California, Health Net is second in enrollment. Cox said that Covered California is the only state exchange, so far, to release regional data. It is at the local level where \"competition among insurers truly takes place,\" the analysts noted in their report. The information from Covered California \"helps us to understand the details of pricing dynamics in California,\" Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrel Ng, a spokesman for Anthem Blue Cross, did not seem overly worried. In an email, he pointed out that the analysis was done with two months still to go in open enrollment and did not look at either the non-exchange market or enrollment in grandfathered plans. \"It's premature to draw any conclusions,\" he wrote. \"Market share has changed substantially as more have enrolled via Covered California, and it's reasonable to expect that this will continue as open enrollment concludes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox said that even with the additional data about the non-exchange market by early next year, it still won't tell us the whole story. \"It will probably be at least two to three years before we're really able to know how much the ACA is changing insurance market competition,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time will also show whether those insurers that offered plans at lower premiums can maintain those prices -- or if they will have to raise prices once they start paying claims, Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenn Moore, a vice president at Health Net who oversees exchange business, is confident the company will stay the course. “The intention was that we would bid a sustainable price over the long term,” she said and cited Health Net's partnership with \"a very strong provider network\" as well as educational efforts to help consumers efficiently use the system in its efforts to keep premiums low going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this early analysis shows California -- and New York -- are seeing a more competitive environment, other states are not faring as well. In Connecticut, Wellpoint, the parent company of Anthem Blue Cross, has increased its market share from 45 percent to 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Th\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>is post has been updated to include comments from Health Net.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"Cq1qPApycsTF7WYdQyTgGQjR6d3BDpsA\"]\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_16356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/11/187909355-e1385142271347.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-16356\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/11/187909355-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California. (Max Whitaker/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California. (Max Whitaker/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Max Whitaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1:00 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California reported Thursday that 923,832 people have signed up for a health insurance plan through its agency through March 9. With 18 days left in open enrollment and an expected surge predicted as the final March 31 deadline comes near, the one million enrollment mark appears within reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">20,000 people are starting applications every day on Covered California.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In addition to the enrollment on Covered California, another 1.1 million people who have applied throughout the marketplace were determined likely to be eligible for Medi-Cal. Roughly another million people are newly enrolled in Medi-Cal because they transferred in from the Low Income Health Program on Jan. 1 or through other local and statewide efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you take these numbers together and add the first nine days of March,\" said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, \"it means more than 3 million Californians have benefitted from the Affordable Care Act.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just over two weeks left in open enrollment, Lee says 20,000 people are starting applications every day on the website, and roughly 10,000 people a day are finalizing enrollment by picking a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are strong numbers,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrollment of Latinos, Young Adults, Still Lags\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 900,000 enrollees so far, Covered California has already exceeded a benchmark of 560,000 enrollments by Mar. 31. But enrollment from some groups is lagging, in particular Latinos and young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan>Enrollment of young adults, people ages 18-34, has ticked up ever so slightly, to 26.5 percent versus \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/02/19/california-exceeds-its-target-for-enrollment-in-obamacare-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">26 percent\u003c/a> in mid-February.\u003cspan> While this number reflects their representation in the population, it is below their representation in the pool of those eligible for subsidies. Since younger people are more likely to be uninsured, they make up 41 percent of the people Covered California needs to attract. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Related:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/health/obamacare/obamacare-guide.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Obamacare Guide -- Just for Californians\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino enrollment is also climbing, but still lags their representation in the population. Through Feb. 28, 22 percent of Covered California enrollees self-identified as Latino, compared to 38 percent of the population -- and 57 percent of the uninsured. Latino enrollment was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/01/21/just-over-500000-people-enrolled-in-covered-california-in-2013-some-report-problems/\" target=\"_blank\">19 percent\u003c/a> as of Dec. 31 and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/02/19/california-exceeds-its-target-for-enrollment-in-obamacare-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">20 percent\u003c/a> in mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, the share of young adults and Latinos who have signed up for Medi-Cal is much higher. Through Feb. 28, 38 percent of those likely to be eligible for Medi-Cal are Latino; 35 percent are 18-34.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, nearly 23 percent of the Covered California enrollees are Asian while their representation in the population is about 14 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 31 Deadline to Enroll is Firm\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee stressed that the Mar. 31 deadline will not change. \"California will not be extending the deadline,\" he said and encouraged people to sign up as soon as possible and not wait until the last minute. He said that Covered California has worked to \"dramatically increase capacity\" of both servers and call center employees to handle the traffic as Mar. 31 draws closer, \"but there's no way to expand capacity to handle 5 million people trying to enroll in one day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big unknown is the specific impact on the uninsured in California. There is no question in the application that specifically asks if an applicant has been uninsured. Lee said that Covered California is planning work with the \u003ca href=\"http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">California Health Insurance Survey\u003c/a> to survey on a broad population level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with 3 million Californians enrolled in Covered California, Medi-Cal or likely eligible for Medi-Cal, both Lee and Toby Douglas, director of the California Department of Health Care Services, were optimistic. \"We believe this is having a significant impact on the rate of the uninsured,\" Douglas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/139454589&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the March 31 deadline to sign up for a health insurance plan draws closer, Covered California executive director Peter Lee reports that 20,000 Californians are starting applications every day and about half of them are going on to pick a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His remarks came in a call with reporters that included several other directors of state-based marketplaces. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are strong numbers,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrollment of Latinos, Young Adults, Still Lags\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 900,000 enrollees so far, Covered California has already exceeded a benchmark of 560,000 enrollments by Mar. 31. But enrollment from some groups is lagging, in particular Latinos and young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan>Enrollment of young adults, people ages 18-34, has ticked up ever so slightly, to 26.5 percent versus \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/02/19/california-exceeds-its-target-for-enrollment-in-obamacare-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">26 percent\u003c/a> in mid-February.\u003cspan> While this number reflects their representation in the population, it is below their representation in the pool of those eligible for subsidies. Since younger people are more likely to be uninsured, they make up 41 percent of the people Covered California needs to attract. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Related:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/health/obamacare/obamacare-guide.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Obamacare Guide -- Just for Californians\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino enrollment is also climbing, but still lags their representation in the population. Through Feb. 28, 22 percent of Covered California enrollees self-identified as Latino, compared to 38 percent of the population -- and 57 percent of the uninsured. Latino enrollment was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/01/21/just-over-500000-people-enrolled-in-covered-california-in-2013-some-report-problems/\" target=\"_blank\">19 percent\u003c/a> as of Dec. 31 and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/02/19/california-exceeds-its-target-for-enrollment-in-obamacare-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">20 percent\u003c/a> in mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, the share of young adults and Latinos who have signed up for Medi-Cal is much higher. 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There is no question in the application that specifically asks if an applicant has been uninsured. 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