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Covered California extends time for uninsured residents to sign up for health coverage [sacbee.com]

 

By Cathie Anderson, The Sacramento Bee, June 24, 2020

Covered California announced Tuesday that it would extend a special enrollment period to July 31 to give Californians additional time to sign up for health insurance. It had been set to end June 30.

As cases of COVID-19 surged in California, the agency’s board voted to give all uninsured Californians the opportunity to sign up for coverage. Typically, after open enrollment ends in January, only people who have a qualifying life event such as a job loss are eligible to get coverage.

COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, has killed roughly 5,600 people in California and has sickened more than 183,000. After a brief decline in the number of cases, infections are once again on the rise.

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