Month: July 2015

Affordable Health Insurance

IRS reports Results of the First Year Individual Responsibility Requirements of the Affordable Care Act

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On Tuesday, the IRS announced the results of PPACA’s first year individual responsibility requirements. The report had analyzed 135 of an estimated 150 million tax returns. From this information, it became clear that 76% of Americans had checked the box indicating that they had qualifying insurance for the next year. About 12 million Americans had […]

Affordable Health Insurance

Covered California Announces Affordable 2016 Rates

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This month Covered California, our state health insurance exchange, announced the preliminary health insurance rates for 2016. Good news is that for Los Angeles the average rate increase is overall very low, with only 2.5%.  California-wide the average health insurance premium increase are 4%, whereas the largest increases were in the rural Northern California areas. But there’s additional great news for […]