Enroll Your Kids for Health Insurance Before March 1st!
By Assemblymember Roger Dickinson
Affordable health insurance is available for your children, regardless of pre-existing conditions, during open-enrollment
March 1, 2011 will be the last day of a critical open-enrollment period for affordable children’s health insurance.
During the open-enrollment period, parents can sign up their children for more affordable health insurance. As a result of President Obama’s federal health care reform plan and AB 2244 by Assemblymember Feuer, children with pre-existing conditions cannot be denied coverage – they also cannot be charged rates that are more than double the rates of healthy kids. Parents of healthy children without insurance should also sign their kids up during this period; kids who don’t sign up during open enrollment periods may be subject to a 20 percent surcharge on their insurance rates for a full year.
