#covered-california

#covered-california

Enrollment in Obamacare is slowing down in California after Republicans in Congress opted not to extend a policy that beefed up financial assistance for patients, a move that led to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. About 175,000 people statewide have newly enrolled in Covered California, the state's Affordable Care Act marketplace, so far for 2026. That's a 31% decrease from this time last year, data shows. Health experts expect bigger declines in the coming months, as more enrollees receive notice of price hikes and cancel their plans.

"We do estimate as many as 400,000 of our current enrollees could be priced out of the coverage they have today,"

"If we get a representative here who is representing Los Angeles or parts of Pomona or something like that, she's not going to be used to our lifestyles, or whoever that Congress person is," he said. "We need someone who knows who we are." Norco's current representative, Republican Ken Calvert, was born and raised in Corona, which is just one town over. He's represented District 41 for more than 30 years. Pettinger abhors the idea of Proposition 50 taking Calvert away.