Dave Jones, California’s health insurance commissioner, does not attempt to sugarcoat the effect that so much heated rhetoric has had on the task of getting insurance companies to offer affordable rates to consumers, especially in the private health insurance market now dominated by the Covered California health insurance exchange. “This has been the most unstable and challenged health insurance market in my tenure as a public servant,” Jones said. Already the new administration has said it would not enforce the penalties assessed for those who don’t buy health insurance. Of course, the individual healthcare market is only a small fraction — about 9% in California — of the overall health insurance pie. Credits: Getty / KTLA At least 50 are dead and 200 injured after a shooting on the Las Vegas strip.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 03, 2017 19:41 UTC