Covered CA Head Touts Record Enrollment, Calls For Nationwide Fixes

By Amy Lotven / September 23, 2020 at 12:07 PM
About 1.53 million people have insurance purchased through Covered California, the highest number since the exchange went live in 2014, which indicates the Affordable Care Act is providing the safety net that Congress intended, exchange executive director Peter Lee announced Tuesday (Sept. 22), a day before he urged Congress to adopt nationwide solutions to lower marketplace premiums, provide options to consumers with inadequate employer coverage and address the health disparities exposed by the pandemic. The 1.53 million number of enrollees...

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