{"id":835,"date":"2022-04-28T08:43:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samethealth.org\/ca-health-committee-chairs-intro-bills-to-increase-affordability-in-coveredca-from-health-access\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T08:43:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:43:30","slug":"ca-health-committee-chairs-intro-bills-to-increase-affordability-in-coveredca-from-health-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samethealth.org\/ca-health-committee-chairs-intro-bills-to-increase-affordability-in-coveredca-from-health-access\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Health Committee Chairs Intro Bills to Increase Affordability in CoveredCA &#8212; from Health Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New state legislation introduced this week would fill key affordability gaps in Covered California, potentially lowering cost-sharing and eliminating deductibles for over a million Californians getting coverage through the state marketplace. AB 1878 by Assemblymember Dr. Jim Wood, and\u00a0SB 944 by Senator Dr. Richard Pan, both sponsored by Health Access California would remove financial barriers to care for hundreds of thousands of patients, and encourage even more Californians to sign up for coverage. Without such help, low- and middle-income Californians face counterproductive out-of-pocket costs that are financially unfeasible. High cost-sharing, especially deductibles, lead people who have coverage to avoid needed care, or face\u00a0debt for seeking care, and keeps some people from purchasing care at all.\u00a0Those who earn just over $2,000 [&#8230;] Read More<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health-access.org\/2022\/02\/ca-health-committee-chairs-intro-bills-to-increase-affordability-in-coveredca\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New state legislation introduced this week would fill key affordability gaps in Covered California, potentially lowering cost-sharing and eliminating deductibles for over a million Californians getting coverage through the state marketplace. AB 1878 by Assemblymember Dr. Jim Wood, and\u00a0SB 944 by Senator Dr. Richard Pan, both sponsored by Health Access California would remove financial barriers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CA Health Committee Chairs Intro Bills to Increase Affordability in CoveredCA - from Health Access - samethealth.org %<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/samethealth.org\/ca-health-committee-chairs-intro-bills-to-increase-affordability-in-coveredca-from-health-access\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CA Health Committee Chairs Intro Bills to Increase Affordability in CoveredCA - from Health Access - samethealth.org %\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New state legislation introduced this week would fill key affordability gaps in Covered California, potentially lowering cost-sharing and eliminating deductibles for over a million Californians getting coverage through the state marketplace. 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