By Viji Sundaram, New America Media
Three years after California launched its online health insurance marketplace under the Affordable Care Act, nearly three-fourths of its 5.8 million previously uninsured residents now have insurance, according to a study released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Of them, one-third have coverage through Medi-Cal (California’s name for Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people), 21 percent gained coverage through an employer, and 11 percent bought insurance through Covered California, the online health insurance marketplace that launched in early 2014. An additional 8 percent said they have nongroup coverage or insurance through some other source.
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