Covered California’s 12th open enrollment and financial assistance continue for 2025 unaffected by election results

SAN FRANCISCO — Covered California open enrollment for 2025 health plan has begun from November 1 through January 31, 2025. The enrollees were assured that both the open enrollment and financial assistance would not be affected by the November election results.

“Our doors are open, and now is the time for Californians to sign up for health insurance,” Covered CA Executive Director Jessica Altman said at the San Francisco Main Library on November 20.

“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land, and the election results do not affect the financial assistance available to enrollees through federal and enhanced state subsidies next year. The most financial assistance ever offered to Californians to help pay for health care coverage remains available for 2025,” said Altman.

Altman hosted an event at the San Francisco Main Library to announce the "Let's Talk Health" campaign as the theme of the 12th open enrollment for Covered California.

Covered California was launched in 2013 for Californians under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which was passed in the Congress and signed by former President Barack Obama to provide health insurance for all Americans.

The open enrollment period for 2025 Covered California began on November 1 until January 31, 2025. Altman has been travelling around the state working with public libraries to promote the "Let's Talk Health" campaign.

In San Francisco Main Library, Altman was joined by San Francisco City Librarian Michael Lambert, Clinical Professor of Community Health Sciences and Co-Principal Investigator at the Health Research for Action Center at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Linda A Neuhauser, and Asian Inc. Executive Director Lamar Heystek, to encourage Californians signing up, renewing or shopping for new health insurance plans before the open enrollment ends on January 31, 2025.

The November 5 election was over. Altman assured Californians that the election results would not affect the 2025 open enrollment, financial assistance and coverage through Affordable Care Act marketplaces throughout the nation, including Covered California.

Altman said California’s enhanced cost-sharing reduction program, which will be available to all Covered California enrollees in 2025, is making coverage even more affordable for Californians.

The financial assistance fund in Covered CA for enrollees in 2025 will break the record in the state. The cost-sharing reduction program was strengthened by Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature by increasing the amount of state funds to $165 million, according to Altman.

As a result, Californians with incomes above 200 percent of the federal poverty level (which is $30,120 for a single person and $62,400 for a family of four) are now eligible to enroll in an Enhanced Silver 73 plan with no deductibles and reduced out-of-pocket costs.

Also beginning on November 1, recipients of DACA, a program that allows young immigrants who grew up in the United States to temporarily delay deportation and work, will be eligible to enroll in Covered California for 2025. It is estimated that 40,000 DACA recipients in California will be eligible for the coverage.

Californians can sign up health insurance and learn more about their options by visiting CoveredCA.com or calling Covered California at (800) 300-1506.