How Does California’s Health Care
Exchange Work?
LWVA Forum at Alameda Hospital November 20, 7-9 PM
What is Covered
California —California’s
brand-new Health Insurance Exchange—anyway?
How
does it work? How do
individuals, families, and businesses sign up for it in Alameda County?
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Hear about California’s state-run health care exchange from Angela
Blanchette,
Covered California’s Regional Manager for
Outreach and Media Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area, at November’s free community forum offered by
the League of
Women Voters® of Alameda (LWVA) on Wednesday, November 20, from 7-9 pm at Alameda
Hospital. (Please note the change of day and
date from our usual third Thursdays. ed.)
League members and their guests are invited to bring their questions on Covered California to the Dal
Cielo Conference Room (Conference Room A) on the second floor of Alameda
Hospital at 2070 Clinton Avenue (at Willow
Street). The entrance to the hospital parking lot—where ample free parking is
available in the evening—is on Willow.
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Blanchette will describe how to compare health plans and sign up
under Covered California—the state-run
implementation of the Affordable
Care Act—as well as how well the state’s health insurance exchange is working. Alameda
Hospital (510-522-3700; communityrelations@alamedahospital.org) and the Alameda
Chamber of Commerce
(510-522-0414; connect@alamedachamber.com) are cosponsoring this LWVA public forum.
The
new federal
health care law, passed in 2010, is officially called the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Affordable Care Act”). The federal Health Insurance Marketplace, a part of the
new system that has experienced numerous technical problems, offers four ways
to sign up for health insurance: online, by phone, in person, or by mail. Covered California is the state’s
health care exchange under the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.”
About Angela Blanchette
Angela Blanchette is Covered California’s new Regional Manager for Outreach and Media
Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has more than 25 years of
marketing and communications experience, having orchestrated many successful
campaigns for entities in the public and private sectors including the California Environmental Protection Agency, Caltrans, California Energy Commission, and Kaiser Permanente.
