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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whether you’re eligible for Medi-Cal now or become eligible then, that fact alone disqualifies you from tax subsidies on the health insurance marketplace, which is called Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California will offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.coveredca.com/news/PDFs/CC_Health_Plans_Booklet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">13 health plans across the state\u003c/a> (not all in each region) that cover a standard set of benefits. Individuals and families who earn between 138 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level will be eligible for sliding-scale tax credits to purchase those plans.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theoretically, Beth, you could reject Medi-Cal and buy insurance on the marketplace, but you’d have to pay full price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone who is eligible for Medi-Cal but chooses this option would likely incur significant premiums and cost sharing,” says Norman Williams, spokesman for the state Department of Health Care Services, which administers Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorry, Beth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: My children had health coverage through Healthy Families, but had to transfer into Medi-Cal this year when Healthy Families was eliminated. We liked Healthy Families better than Medi-Cal. Will we be able to leave Medi-Cal and buy insurance on the exchange?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: Roughly 860,000 California children have moved –- or will move –- from Healthy Families onto Medi-Cal this year after the program’s elimination by budget cuts. \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthyfamilies.ca.gov/HFProgram/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy Families\u003c/a> is a publicly funded program that covers children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once those kids are on Medi-Cal, the same rules will apply to them as to other Medi-Cal recipients: If they qualify for Medi-Cal, they won’t qualify for tax credits on the marketplace, also called the exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s a mind-boggling twist: Some \u003cem>parents\u003c/em> of children in Medi-Cal may qualify for tax credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come January, kids statewide will be eligible for Medi-Cal if their family income is up to 250 percent of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.familiesusa.org/resources/tools-for-advocates/guides/federal-poverty-guidelines.html\" target=\"_blank\">federal poverty level\u003c/a> (FPL), about $59,000 for a family of four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Medi-Cal expansion, however, their parents will be eligible only if their income is less than 138 percent of the FPL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So some parents who make between 138 percent and 250 percent of the federal poverty level and who are eligible for tax credits on the exchange may have children on Medi-Cal who are not eligible for insurance on the Covered California marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to have a lot of mixed-coverage families, where kids will be in Medi-Cal and parents will be in the exchange,” says Elizabeth Landsberg of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wclp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: I heard in the news this month that Obamacare is being delayed by a year. Is that true?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: Yes and no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One important piece of Obamacare \u003ca href=\"http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/Continuing-to-Implement-the-ACA-in-a-Careful-Thoughtful-Manner-.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">is being pushed back until the start of 2015\u003c/a>: The requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees offer affordable health insurance or face a penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As my colleague Kelley Weiss \u003ca href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/blog/obamacare-employer-mandate-delay-surprise-whats-it-mean1133\" target=\"_blank\">notes\u003c/a>, more than 90 percent of large California businesses already offer their workers coverage. So, while some Californians will be affected by this, it’s not entirely clear how many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll delve into that matter soon in an upcoming column.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rest of the law stands, which means that starting in January, insurance companies no longer can deny coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions, Medi-Cal will expand eligibility and Covered California will offer tax credits to qualified residents who want to buy health plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/obamacare%E2%80%99s-insurance-requirement-where-do-you-fit1104\" target=\"_blank\">And most people\u003c/a> still will be required to carry a minimum level of health insurance or pay a tax penalty. That probably means you.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Dan Diamond\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/road-to-reform/2013/aetna-and-united-are-out-of-california-whos-moving-in\" target=\"_blank\">California Healthline\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Healthcare has more than 4,700 hospitals in its national network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valley Health Plan has four, all located in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That relative scale is one reason why \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2013/7/2/unitedhealth-to-withdraw-from-states-individual-insurance-market\">United's departure\u003c/a> from California's individual market last week got so many headlines -- even though United only covers 8,000 people in the state -- while the news of Valley's inclusion in Covered California last month got almost none.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the surface, the thought of losing the nation's largest health insurer doesn't seem to augur much good for the Golden State's health reform efforts. Especially in the wake of Aetna's \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2013/6/17/aetna-to-withdraw-from-calif-individual-insurance-market\">similar announcement\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But take the glass half-full approach, a handful of experts say: Think about who's stepping in to fill the void.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>For me, the story is [the] new participants\" in California's insurance exchange, Micah Weinberg of the Bay Area Council tells \u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>, citing LA Care Health Plan, Valley Health Plan and a handful of the other small plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who exactly they are, and how they are being offered in these marketplaces, is worth watching,\" he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In many ways, their participation fulfills the promise of reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Putting United and Aetna's departures in context\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinberg's perspective isn't shared by some critics of Obamacare, \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324436104578581800898560688.html\" target=\"_blank\">who\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://blog.heritage.org/2013/07/02/obamacare-impact-another-insurer-leaves-california-market/\" target=\"_blank\">suggest\u003c/a> that the departure of major insurers from the Golden State is an indictment of the health law and a sign of more trouble to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/07/09/california-exchange-picks-winners-and-losers\" target=\"_blank\">According to Sally Pipes\u003c/a> of the Pacific Research Institute, the insurers pulled out of the California market \"because all the regulations in the state made it not worthwhile to do business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as David Gorn \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/capitol-desk/2013/7/insurance-commissioner-worried-about-uniteds-departure-from-individual-market\">reported for \u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em> last week, state Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones further stoked fears by saying he was worried about the prospects for competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation agrees with Weinberg that Aetna and United's departure may be getting more ink than needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's important and interesting -- but not for the reasons that one would think,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You hear about major insurers exiting the market, and you think that must be bad for consumers and competition,\" Levitt adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But in some ways, it's a sign that the competition is actually working. In a very price-competitive market, you would expect players to exit if they can't compete.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt and others also note several reasons why United and Aetna's loss may be overstated at first blush. For example, the ACA offers more protections for consumers who need to shop around if their plans stop offering coverage. And they stress that Aetna and United combined covered fewer than 60,000 people in California's two-million-strong individual market. Given the relative size of United and Aetna's share of customers, \"it barely causes a ripple for them not to be offering coverage,\" Levitt adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there's one lament: Given Aetna and United's scale and operations, the two payers were perfectly suited to help absorb the rush of newly insured patients in what's likely to be a bumpy transition next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Both of these companies have great IT infrastructures for enrolling and servicing their members,\"\u003ca href=\"http://insuremekevin.com/2013/07/02/united-health-care-leaving-california-is-no-loss/\" target=\"_blank\">according to Kevin Knauss\u003c/a>, a blogger and health insurance agent in Northern California. \"They are the sort of 'military defense contractors' [that] the U.S. market needs to lend experience and expertise during this period of difficult transition to a new health care and insurance marketplace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking at the the plans that are staying\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many respects, the \"new\" participants in California's insurance exchange are the same as the old. Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California and Kaiser Permanente already command more than 70 percent of the individual market, and the combination of other payers' departure and the ACA's coverage expansion may allow them to further consolidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Covered California is slated to also offer a number of small, local plans like Valley, which serves Santa Clara County, and LA Care Health Plan, which serves the Los Angeles market and is the nation's largest publicly operated health plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, these payers are likely to see a huge influx of new patients. And that could be a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These [plans] are expert in providing care in the population that [the ACA] is hoping to cover,\" according to Weinberg. He notes that residents with lower incomes who will gain coverage through the Medicaid expansion or obtain subsidized plans through the exchange may have different needs that make them more challenging to care for -- but a plan like LA Care already has expertise in working with a Medi-Cal population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, provider-linked plans like Sharp Health Plan (offered by San Diego-based Sharp Healthcare) also will be available through the exchange. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But take the glass half-full approach, a handful of experts say: Think about who's stepping in to fill the void.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>For me, the story is [the] new participants\" in California's insurance exchange, Micah Weinberg of the Bay Area Council tells \u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>, citing LA Care Health Plan, Valley Health Plan and a handful of the other small plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who exactly they are, and how they are being offered in these marketplaces, is worth watching,\" he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In many ways, their participation fulfills the promise of reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Putting United and Aetna's departures in context\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinberg's perspective isn't shared by some critics of Obamacare, \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324436104578581800898560688.html\" target=\"_blank\">who\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://blog.heritage.org/2013/07/02/obamacare-impact-another-insurer-leaves-california-market/\" target=\"_blank\">suggest\u003c/a> that the departure of major insurers from the Golden State is an indictment of the health law and a sign of more trouble to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/07/09/california-exchange-picks-winners-and-losers\" target=\"_blank\">According to Sally Pipes\u003c/a> of the Pacific Research Institute, the insurers pulled out of the California market \"because all the regulations in the state made it not worthwhile to do business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as David Gorn \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/capitol-desk/2013/7/insurance-commissioner-worried-about-uniteds-departure-from-individual-market\">reported for \u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em> last week, state Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones further stoked fears by saying he was worried about the prospects for competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation agrees with Weinberg that Aetna and United's departure may be getting more ink than needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's important and interesting -- but not for the reasons that one would think,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You hear about major insurers exiting the market, and you think that must be bad for consumers and competition,\" Levitt adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But in some ways, it's a sign that the competition is actually working. In a very price-competitive market, you would expect players to exit if they can't compete.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt and others also note several reasons why United and Aetna's loss may be overstated at first blush. For example, the ACA offers more protections for consumers who need to shop around if their plans stop offering coverage. And they stress that Aetna and United combined covered fewer than 60,000 people in California's two-million-strong individual market. Given the relative size of United and Aetna's share of customers, \"it barely causes a ripple for them not to be offering coverage,\" Levitt adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there's one lament: Given Aetna and United's scale and operations, the two payers were perfectly suited to help absorb the rush of newly insured patients in what's likely to be a bumpy transition next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Both of these companies have great IT infrastructures for enrolling and servicing their members,\"\u003ca href=\"http://insuremekevin.com/2013/07/02/united-health-care-leaving-california-is-no-loss/\" target=\"_blank\">according to Kevin Knauss\u003c/a>, a blogger and health insurance agent in Northern California. \"They are the sort of 'military defense contractors' [that] the U.S. market needs to lend experience and expertise during this period of difficult transition to a new health care and insurance marketplace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking at the the plans that are staying\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many respects, the \"new\" participants in California's insurance exchange are the same as the old. Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California and Kaiser Permanente already command more than 70 percent of the individual market, and the combination of other payers' departure and the ACA's coverage expansion may allow them to further consolidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Covered California is slated to also offer a number of small, local plans like Valley, which serves Santa Clara County, and LA Care Health Plan, which serves the Los Angeles market and is the nation's largest publicly operated health plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, these payers are likely to see a huge influx of new patients. And that could be a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These [plans] are expert in providing care in the population that [the ACA] is hoping to cover,\" according to Weinberg. 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"content": "\u003cp>You would think there was an election coming, judging by the way political ads are starting to air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is no election. The big political story is the rollout of Obamacare. In the last few days, we've seen a point-counterpoint between the pro-Obama \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VsRcwVKt5PY\" target=\"_blank\">Organizing for Action's ad\u003c/a> and one from the conservative advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOMAuo4C8kk\" target=\"_blank\">Americans for Prosperity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both ads feature a mother talking about treatment for a young child's devastating illness. The pro-Obamacare ad is a relatively straightforward -- and accurate -- discussion of the elimination of lifetime caps on coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the AFP ad raises some questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube //www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOMAuo4C8kk]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ad, \"Julie,\" identified as a \"mother of two,\" says her young son began having seizures two years ago and his medical care \"meant the world to me.\" Then she goes on to say she has questions about Obamacare: \"If we can't pick our own doctor, how do I know my family is going to get the care they need? And what am I getting in exchange for higher premiums and a smaller paycheck?\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the ad does not explicitly say so, it certainly seems that Julie already has insurance. Yet, little is expected to change for the\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/health/obamacare/obamacare-guide.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"> 80-plus percent of Americans\u003c/a> who already have insurance on the Jan. 1, 2014, rollout of the Affordable Care Act -- whether their insurance is employer-based, Medicare or Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana Howard, spokesman for \u003ca href=\"http://www.coveredca.com\" target=\"_blank\">Covered California\u003c/a>, sounded decidedly displeased when I talked to him about the ad Tuesday afternoon. \"Covered California is not going to affect rates of insurance through (an) employer,\" or have any effects on choice of providers, he said. He stressed that \"80 percent of physicians in California will be within a network\" offered by Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry if I sound a bit strident,\" he added, \"but the Affordable Care Act and Covered California have been dealing with misinformation. ... I implore people to take a look at our website, look at our plans and look at the cost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He readily pointed out that some people with higher income -- above $100,000 -- who buy their own insurance on the individual market may see their premiums go up, but for most people, premiums are \"likely going to go down ... and women with children, who are low income, definitely will not\" be paying more, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cover Oregon \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/07/08/oregon-launches-quirky-obamacare-videos/\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled its quirky ads \u003c/a>over the weekend, Covered California's own TV ads won't come out until late August or early September, Howard said, adding that the agency needs to be \"prudent about funds we have available.\" Enrollment in the marketplace starts Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washington Post's Fact Checker \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker\">gave the AFP ad \"Two Pinocchios,\" \u003c/a>meaning it had \"(s)ignificant omissions and/or exaggerations.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In many cases outreach workers will teach people about premiums and co-payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our community are immigrants, and so that means that they're not familiar with our health care system,” Wong said. “It's crazy enough for us to navigate our system when we grew up with it, but for somebody coming over from another country, they don't understand what a managed care plan is or why (they) have to get permission to go see a doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating matters, Covered California's online insurance application will be available in English and Spanish. Wong said she and others have been trying to get Covered California officials to change that, but with enrollment opening Oct. 1, they can’t delay outreach. Wong is anxious to get started for other reasons. Immigrant communities are vulnerable to scams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to get the word out and tell them where to go,” Wong said. “Not that little store with the little shingle out there that says ‘I have cheap health insurance,’ which you know will spring up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pent-up Demand for Health Insurance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Little Saigon community health educator Lucy Huynh thinks federal health reform might not be such a tough sell. Huynh is with Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, one of the groups involved in outreach. 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"content": "\u003cp>By Jordan Rau, \u003ca href=\"http://capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org/index.php/2013/06/young-adults-value-health-insurance-poll-finds/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13301\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-13301\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/06/78770400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A strong majority of young adults, whose participation in the health law may be key to its success or failure, strongly believe health insurance is important for them and worth the money, according to a new poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California and other states -- as well as the federal government -- prepare new online marketplaces for people to purchase insurance this fall, the willingness of young people to buy coverage has been a topic of great uncertainty. 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When the pollsters put the question differently by asking whether “insurance is something I need,” more than 74 percent of people under age 30 agreed.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of those 30 or younger agreed with the statement that “insurance is worth the money it costs,” although the pollsters did not offer those polled any dollar figures for an estimated cost. Liz Hamel, with the foundation’s polling unit, said the goal of the question was to elicit people’s general attitude toward insurance cost, not to attempt to predict whether they would ultimately take up coverage. In addition, she said, it would be hard to offer a set figure for premiums, given that they will vary among states and the size of a person’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, two-thirds of these young adults said they worried about paying medical bills in the case of a serious illness or accident, and more than 44 percent said they were concerned about medical bills from routine care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The large majority of Americans want and value health insurance,” the pollsters wrote. “More than seven in ten young adults – a special focus of outreach and enrollment efforts — say it is very important to them personally to have insurance. Cost remains the biggest barrier for the uninsured, with four in ten citing the expense of coverage as the main reason they don’t have it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll also indicated that the Obama administration, states and health care advocates have much to do to make people aware of the new health insurance exchanges that are being created for people who don’t get coverage through an employer. Forty-five percent of people polled said they had heard “nothing at all” about these marketplaces, and 34 percent said they had heard “only a little.” Low-income people and the uninsured knew less about the marketplaces than did their more affluent and covered counterparts, the poll found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that once again opposition to the health care law is greater than support by a margin of 43 percent to 35 percent. The poll also found that names matter significantly in this discussion. 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The requirement to provide coverage to full-time employees or potentially face thousands of dollars in fines is what’s really worrying some large companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most employees at large businesses already receive health insurance through their employer. But there are still some exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Andridge is a sales associate at a Walmart near Sacramento. 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Andridge plans to apply for herself soon as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some health care advocates are concerned there will be even more employees like Andridge applying for Medi-Cal once Obamacare kicks in next year. They fear companies will limit hours for workers just to avoid having to pay for their health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers should not be able to skirt their responsibility simply by exploiting a vulnerability in the law,” says Steve Smith with the California Labor Federation.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) introduced, and the California Labor Federation is co-sponsoring \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB880\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 880\u003c/a>. It's designed to address what Smith calls a limitation of federal health reform. Under the Affordable Care Act employers aren’t required to cover part-time employees or those working fewer than 30 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/health/obamacare/obamacare-guide.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more: KQED's Obamacare Guide\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We’re hearing that this is a real problem out there,” Smith says. “Workers for Walmart, for restaurant chains, are seeing that their hours are being cut so that these employers can get around paying their fair share through the Affordable Care Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says AB 880 is aimed at preventing low-wage workers who lose hours -- and their health care coverage -- from turning to Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fines would vary under the measure, but on average businesses with more than 500 employees would face a $5,500 penalty for each worker who enrolls in Medi-Cal. 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The president defended the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the transcript of his remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OBAMA: These leaders from California's government, the California Endowment, and major Spanish-language media outlets have joined together to help implement the Affordable Care Act here in California and to educate folks about how to sign up and shop for quality affordable plans. And their efforts have already shown some excellent results in the biggest insurance market in the country.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two main things that Americans need to know when it comes to the Affordable Care Act and what it means for you. First of all, if you're one of the nearly 85 percent of Americans who already have insurance, either through Medicare or Medicaid or your employer, you don't have to do a thing. You've just got a wide array of new benefits, better protections, and stronger cost controls that you didn't have before, and that will over time improve the quality of the insurance that you've got, benefits like free preventive care, checkups, flu shots, mammograms, and contraception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You are now going to be able to get those things through your insurance where they previously were not -- didn't have to be provided, protections like allowing people up to the age of 26 to stay on their parents' health care plans, which has already helped 6 million Americans, including 6 million young Latino Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cost controls like requiring insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of the money that you pay in premiums in your actual health care costs, as opposed to administrative costs or CEO pay, not overhead, but that money has to be spent on you. And if they don't meet that target, they actually have to reimburse you. So in California, we're already getting reports that insurers are giving rebates to consumers and small-business owners to the tune of $45 million this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So already we're seeing millions of dollars of rebates sent back to consumers by insurance companies as a consequence of this law. All of that is happening because of the Affordable Care Act. All of this is in place right now already for 85 percent of Americans who have health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the way, all of this is what the Republican Party has now voted 37 times to repeal, at least in the House of Representatives. And my suggestion to them has been, let's stop re-fighting the old battles and start working with people like the leaders who are on stage here today to make this law work the way it's supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're focused on moving forward and making sure that this law works for middle-class families, and that brings me to the second thing that people need to know about the Affordable Care Act. If you're one of nearly 6 million Californians or 10 million -- tens of millions of Americans who don't currently have health insurance, you'll soon be able to buy quality, affordable care just like everybody else. And here's how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States like California are setting up new online marketplaces, where beginning on October 1st of this year, you can comparison shop an array of private health insurance plans side-by-side, just like you were going online to compare cars or airline tickets, and that means insurance companies will actually have to compete with each other for your business. And that means new choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See, right now, most states don't have a lot of competition. In nearly every state, more than half of all consumers are covered by only two insurers, so there's no incentive to provide you a lot of choices or to keep costs down. The Affordable Care Act changes that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning next year, once these marketplaces are open, most states will offer new private insurance choices that don't exist today. And based on early reports, about 9 in 10 Americans expected to enroll in these marketplaces live in states where they'll be able to choose between five or more different insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, here in California, 33 insurers applied to join the marketplace. Covered California then selected 13 based on access, quality and affordability, four of which are brand new to your individual market. So what's happening is, through the Affordable Care Act, we're creating these marketplaces with more competition, more choice. And so the question is, what happens to cost?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a lot of the opponents of the Affordable Care Act said -- you know, they had all kinds of \"sky is falling,\" doom-and-gloom predictions that not only would the law fail, but what we'd also see is costs would skyrocket for everybody. Well, it turns out we're actually seeing that -- in the states that have committed themselves to implementing this law correctly, we're seeing some good news. Competition and choice are pushing down costs in the individual market, just like the law was designed to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 13 insurance companies that were chosen by Covered California have unveiled premiums that were lower than anybody expected. And those who can't afford to buy private insurance will get help reducing their out-of-pocket premiums even further with the largest health care tax cut for working families and small businesses in our history. So about 2.6 million Californians -- nearly half of whom are Latinos -- will qualify for tax credits that will in some cases lower their premiums a significant amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, none of this is a surprise. This is the way that the law was designed to work. But since everybody's been saying how it's not going to happen, I think it's important for us to recognize and acknowledge, this is working the way it's supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've seen similar good news, by the way, not just here in California, but in Oregon and Washington. In states that are working hard to implement this law properly, we're seeing it work for people, for middle-class families, for consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that's not to say that everything's going to go perfectly right away. When you're implementing a program this large, there will be some glitches. There are going to be some hiccups. 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And the fact of the matter is, through these exchanges, not only are the 85 percent of people who already have health insurance getting better protections and receiving rebates and being able to keep their kids on their health insurance until they're 26, and getting free preventive care, but if you don't have health insurance, and you're trying to get it through the individual market, and it's too expensive or it's too restricted, you now have these marketplaces where they're going to offer you a better deal because of choice and competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if even at those lower rates and better insurance that you're getting through these marketplaces you still can't afford it, you're going to be getting tax cuts and tax credits through the Affordable Care Act that will help you afford it. And that's how we're going to make sure that millions of people who don't currently have health insurance or are getting a really bad deal on their health insurance are finally going to get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But -- and here's my final point. To take advantage of these marketplaces, folks are going to need to sign up. So you can find out how to sign up at healthcare.gov, healthcare.gov. Or here in California, you can sign up at coveredca.com, coveredca.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because quality care is not something that should be a privilege. It should be a right. In the greatest country on Earth, we've got to make sure that every single person that needs health care can get it. And we've got to make sure that we do it in the most efficient way possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One last point I'm going to make on this, because there are a lot of people who currently get health insurance through their employers, the 85 percent who are already out there, and they may be saying, well, if -- if this law's so great, why is it that my premiums still went up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, part of what's happening across the country is in some cases, for example, employers may be shifting more costs through higher premiums or higher deductibles or higher co-pays, and so there may still be folks who are out there feeling increased costs not because of the Affordable Care Act, but because those costs are being passed on to workers. Or insurance companies, in some cases, even with these laws in place are still jacking up prices unnecessarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this doesn't solve the whole problem, but it moves us in the right direction. 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