Tag: Covered California Enrollment

  • Covered California Better Equipped to Help Foreign Language Speakers

    By Kenny Goldberg In its first year of operation in 2013, California’s health insurance exchange wasn’t well equipped to help people who speak foreign languages. But this year, Covered California’s website has information in Spanish, Arabic, and ten other foreign languages. The exchange also has operators at its call center who speak Chinese or Korean.…

  • Covered California Works to Insure More Youth, Latinos

    Covered California spokesman Dana Howard and Gary Rotto, public policy director for the Council of Community Clinics, discuss open enrollment on KPBS Evening Edition. By Kenny Goldberg Click here to listen to a KPBS Midday Edition segment with more information on open enrollment. Open enrollment in Covered California begins this Saturday. Officials with the online…

  • Covered California Releases Spanish-Language Enrollment Form

    By Kenny Goldberg Enrollment in Covered California has skyrocketed the last few months, except among people whose primary language is Spanish. Spanish-speakers make up 29 percent of California’s population. But exchange officials said so far, that group makes up only 5 percent of those who’ve signed up for a plan. Exchange spokeswoman Lizelda Lopez admitted…

  • Latino Enrollment Lagging On Covered California

    By Kenny Goldberg Nearly 80,000 people have signed up for health insurance on Covered California since Oct. 1, but Latino enrollment at the online health exchange has been dismal. Latinos make up nearly half of California’s 7 million uninsured population. Under Obamacare, many of them are eligible for federal subsidies, or Medi-Cal, which doesn’t charge…