Tag: NC Navigator Consortium

By Rose Hoban Who knew? The tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of North Carolinians who have lost health insurance since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic might have a new option. They should check out the federal marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act. A change quietly enacted on the federal Healthcare.gov website sometime

By Shefali Luthra Kaiser Health News During last week’s Democratic presidential debate, candidates touched on “Medicare for All,” “Medicare for all who want it” and other ways to reform the American health system. But in the backdrop, it’s once again Obamacare sign-up season. Despite repeated efforts by Republicans in Congress to undo the Affordable Care

By Rose Hoban It seemed like this year’s Affordable Care Act open enrollment was going to be lackluster, after all, at the end of six weeks of the online marketplace being open, only 236,693 North Carolinians had signed up for health insurance coverage, less than 50 percent of last year’s total. But the last week

By Rose Hoban As he drove from one town to the next late last week, Mark Van Arnam was dismayed to hear the news that a judge sitting on a district circuit court in Texas ruled that the entire Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional. Van Arnam leads the North Carolina Navigator Consortium, a group dedicated

By Yen Duong and Rose Hoban If you thought an Obamacare plan might cost you too much, think again. In fact, you could pay nothing. As this year’s enrollment period for insurance through the Affordable Care Act draws to a close, advocates are making the point that some plans could actually cost nothing, after tax

By Mark Tosczak Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina said that overall premiums in its 2019 Affordable Care Act plans would be reduced by 4.1 percent — the first time in the company’s history that it’s reduced rates for individual insurance plans. “Lower premiums mean that more people will come and shop the

By Rose Hoban New data released this week by federal health officials show that North Carolina had continued strong enrollment on the federal health insurance marketplace during the most recent signup period – but it was a squeaker. The data show that close to half of North Carolina’s 519,803 signups for insurance available under the

By Taylor Knopf With only three days left to select a health insurance plan through HealthCare.gov, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is asking federal officials for a one-week extension. Despite attempts by Congress and President Donald Trump to repeal and undermine the law, the Affordable Care Act attracted 209,050 North Carolinians by the end of

By Rose Hoban Almost 139,000 North Carolinians have signed up for 2018 coverage in the state insurance exchange, federal officials announced Wednesday. The announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave the first state-by-state breakdown of sign-ups over three weeks of enrollment in the 39 states that use the federal healthcare.gov exchanges.

By Rose Hoban Wade Patrick didn’t think he could get insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges this year. “I thought it was gone, I was hearing that it was gone,” said the 56-year-old electrician who had insurance last year through Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. “Everybody is just confused, nobody really