{"id":20512,"date":"2022-11-14T08:07:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20512"},"modified":"2022-11-14T08:07:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:07:14","slug":"california-stockpiles-penalties-from-uninsured-residents-instead-of-lowering-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20512","title":{"rendered":"California Stockpiles Penalties From Uninsured Residents Instead of Lowering Care Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Angela Hart for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Nearly three years after California started fining residents who don\u2019t have health insurance, the state has not distributed any of the revenue it has collected, KHN has learned \u2014 money that was intended to help Californians struggling to pay for coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so far, the majority of Californians paying the tax penalty for not having insurance are low- and middle-income earners, according to state tax officials \u2014 just the people the money was intended to help.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/california-stockpiles-penalties-from-uninsured-residents-instead-of-lowering-care-costs\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/california-stockpiles-penalties-from-uninsured-residents-instead-of-lowering-care-costs\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Angela Hart for Kaiser Health News) SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Nearly three years after California started fining residents who don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,47],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-20512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance","category-uninsuredunderinsured","tag-aca","tag-california-stockpiles-penalties","tag-uninsured-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20513,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions\/20513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}