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State Programs for Low-Cost Health Insurance in California: The Government Cares
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A great number of Americans know how hard it is to earn money nowadays. Once you find a job, you need to work hard just to get that salary that will be used to finance most of your monthly expenses. You always want to get the worth out of your hard-earned salary. Every cent counts and should not be wasted. Thus, creating your list of important expenditures is really a tremendous task to perform since you want to finance the most important ones and eliminate expenditures that are not so important anymore.
The education of your children is an important expenditure.
Your utility bills matters to you.
The home mortgage payments must always be one of the top priorities every payday.
But how about health insurance? Does it matter to you at all?
Most low-income families in the United States do not prefer to be covered by any type of health insurance plan. They pointed out that most of their salaries turn out to be used for monthly premium payments of health insurance plans. There are instances wherein they are paying out for the monthly premiums that they have availed yet they are not getting the health benefits that they need. They tend to pay thousands of dollars annually for health insurance plans only to find out later on that their health coverage on such plans are not sufficient to cover their health needs.
As a result, more and more low-income individuals are uninsured in the country, especially in the state of California. According to the report published by a California-based consumer group Communicating for Agriculture and the Self-Employed, there are 6.5 million California residents (non-elderly population) who are uninsured. It is equivalent to around 20.6% of the total population of the state, and noticeably higher than the national average of 17.2% or 43 million uninsured Americans all over the country.
The same reason is also pointed out to the growing number of uninsured individuals in California. Most of them are earning less than the standard wage and they have a hard time financing their health insurance plan every now and then. There are other important matters to be financed by their meager salaries, thus neglecting health insurance coverage in their list.
The California state government, in response to the growing numbers of uninsured low-income California residents, has made several measures to provide low-cost health insurance plans for low-income California residents. One of which is through the California Major Medical Insurance Plan which provides an access to low-income individuals who are unable to go medical underwriting by the conventional individual insurance plans. It was enacted in 1989 and became operational as of March 1991.
As of May 2005, there were around 8,572 low-income California residents enrolled in the plan. The guaranteed issue coverage come from the present offering of four plans included in the program yet with much higher annual benefits that amounts to $200,000 and $750,000 lifetime cap. Such low-cost plan enables every low-income California residents to have an access to health benefits that they need.
Aside from the California Major Medical Insurance Plan, there is also low-cost health insurance for California kids ages 1 to 9 years old which is called Healthy Families Plan. In order to be eligible for such plan, your monthly income must not be more than the following:
• $2,314 for a family with 3 members;
• $2,784 for a family with 4 members; and
• $3,254 for a family with 5 members.
The coverage includes hospital confinement, dentist and pediatrician visits, prescribed medicines, and physical therapy. It can be availed by any low-income family for lower monthly premium payments.
With the help of the California state government, you can get a low-cost health insurance not only for yourself but also for your family as well.
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