When can Insurance Plans be Purchased through Covered California?

Covered California is an easy to use online marketplace that will be available to all legal residents of California. The marketplace will provide Californians with an easy way to shop and compare insurance plans that include the coverage required by the Affordable Healthcare Act. Required coverage includes doctor visits, hospitalization, emergency care, maternity and pediatric care for your kids, prescriptions, and other services. Individuals and businesses can begin purchasing health insurance through Covered California beginning in January 2014.

The Covered California online marketplace has many advantages over the traditional way of shopping for healthcare. First, the online marketplace provides, for the first time, an easy way to directly compare each Obama care insurance provider. Users of the marketplace can directly compare what each plan does and does not offer.

Besides allowing users to easily shop and compare insurance providers, Covered California is also the only place for Californians to find out about financial assistance offered by the government to help cover the cost of the insurance. For businesses this includes tax credits and offsets. Individuals can find out about sliding scale assistance that helps reduce the cost of certain plans.

Covered California gives residents access to high quality health coverage they may never have had access to before. Through the marketplace, millions of Californians who are not covered, or are not fully covered, will be able to protect themselves, their families, and their employees from the rising costs of healthcare.

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