More People Can Soon Get Health Coverage through NC Medicaid
Starting December 1, 2023, North Carolina is expanding health care coverage to more people. You might be one of them! NC Medicaid will soon cover … Read More
Open Enrollment for 2024 coverage starts soon! Get ready now.
You can enroll in a Marketplace health plan for 2024 starting November 1, but don’t wait to get ready. Start preparing now to make enrollment … Read More
Affordable Care Act Call-in: Monday, Jan. 9, from 4 to 7 pm
The NC Navigator Consortium will host the FREE Affordable Care Act Call-in Event to answer your questions about HealthCare.gov. Call toll free at 1-855-733-3711, to ask our health insurance navigators just about anything, or make an appointment for more help.
“Family glitch” fixed for families needing affordable health insurance.
Effective Dec. 12, 2022, the federal government will allow families to enroll for policies on the HealthCare.gov Marketplace even if a member of that family has coverage through their employer.
Nine out of ten North Carolinians who are enrolled can get help with premiums and deductibles.
Bright HealthCare discontinues policies.
According to a statement on Bright HealthCare’s website, “Written notifications have been or will be sent to all impacted Individual and Family Plan members in the near future…”
If this impacts you, you will need to enroll in a new policy by Dec. 15, 2022, in order to ensure you are covered for Jan. 1, 2023.
How “affordable” is affordable health coverage?
Many of the subsidies that were made possible by the American Rescue Plan of 2021 were continued in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. This means that four out of five enrollees could pay $10 or less per month for coverage.