Tag: Health
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Second Opinion: How Will the Feds Enforce the Individual Mandate?
Miccilina Piraino says the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is an overstep and unfair to those with limited means to obtain health insurance. She wants to know how the government plans to enforce the requirement to buy health insurance. By Megan Burks Second Opinion is a weekly Q-and-A series that answers questions from San Diegans…
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Second Opinion: Will Obamacare Streamline Care for Disabled People?
Christina Mitchell is a graduate student at the University of San Diego. She’s working with families who care for disabled dependents to document the challenges of coordinating care for their loved ones through a tangled web of doctors, insurance providers and community resources. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan…
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Second Opinion: Will Obamacare Help If My Work Benefits Cost Too Much?
Doug Blackwood and his wife have a great deal on a rental in Ocean Beach. But their rent is going up in January. The couple hopes to qualify for an Obamacare subsidy that might keep their budget in check. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Second Opinion is…
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Why the County Will Lose Half Its Health Funds (And Why It Might Not Matter)
By Megan Burks The state has given San Diego County two options: Take a clean 60 percent cut in health care funding next fiscal year, or negotiate a smaller, more complicated cut. Either way, the region is poised to lose at least half of the state funds it uses to provide medical care to the…
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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…