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How to Get Health Insurance ; COBRA is the easiest but most expensive option for those who have lost employer coverage. Employers typically pay about 75% of the premiums for their employees, with the employee responsible for the rest. The average employee paid $1,242 for single coverage in 2019. But you'd have to pay the full cost on COBRA, which averaged $7,188 for the year. The contribution for family coverage averaged $6,015 in 2019, but the full cost of coverage averaged $20,576. You can fin...
3-Minute Listen ; It's time for consumers who buy their own health insurance to start shopping for policies for next year. Open enrollment for Affordable Care Act coverage starts Thursday across most of the country. ; But the shopping and buying experience will vary widely, depending on where people live. ; In California, for example, where political leaders have always been supportive of the Affordable Care Act, legislators have allocated $100 million for outreach. ; "We're going to be hitting the airwaves with TV, radio, interrupting people's Pandora," says Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California. "That means that in California the average Californian will hear us, see us, be interrupted by us over 50 times this open enrollment season."
Health insurance should be a bridge to medical care, not a barrier. Yet too many commercial health insurance policies often delay, disrupt and deny medically necessary care to patients. ; Related: Why America Needs More Diversity in the Doctor’s Office ; We’ve seen many examples of these actions from across the country highlighted in recent media stories. ; For example, a 67-year-old woman who smoked most of her life was frustrated that the MRI she needed to determine her risk of lung cancer kept getting denied because her insurer deemed it unnecessary. She was later rushed to the ER, where the doctors discovered a massive tumor pressing against her windpipe. The delays caused by prior authorization – getting insurance approval ahead of time for the medical care providers believe a patient needs – “limited her options,” her son told Kaiser Health News, and less than six weeks later, she died.