Make A Commitment To Health

You found your person. Now find the health insurance coverage that works for you and your new family. Covered California can help.

Finding the person you want to spend your life with is truly special. Getting to marry them is even better.

As you build your new lives together, start with a strong foundation of health. Covered California is here to help connect you to high-quality health insurance and financial help to lower your monthly premiums – for both you and your new spouse or domestic partner.

“Marriage is a beautiful and poignant moment when people and families merge and blend, and it signifies the first step in your lifelong journey together,” said Covered California Executive Director Jessica Altman. “If you’re newly married, you may qualify for Covered California’s ongoing special-enrollment period that allows you to shop and sign up for the health insurance your growing family deserves.”

After getting married, you may be looking to start a family, find a job, or blend families together. Whatever stage of life you’re in, Covered California can help support the health of you and your partner.

Take Ramandeep from Stockton, for example. She is the mother of two young children, and she relies on Covered California for herself and her husband, who works as a rideshare driver.

“He’s on the road 24/7, and anything could happen,” she said. “I know that if I have to go get treated, I have insurance that’s going to cover something, so I don’t have to pay a lot out of pocket.”

If you are newly married, you may qualify to enroll during Covered California’s ongoing special-enrollment period. This is the time outside of open enrollment where you can sign up for health insurance if you’ve recently experienced certain life changes.

But this window to sign up only lasts for limited time – 60 days from a qualifying life event. The sooner you act, the better.

Visit CoveredCA.com and enter some basic information, like your age, income and location. From there, you can compare plans in your area, see estimated monthly costs, explore services that are covered and see what financial help is available to you.

In addition to getting married or entering a domestic partnership, the following circumstances are among the more common reasons people become eligible for special enrollment:

• Losing or changing jobs 
• Being removed from your parent’s health plan or a school-sponsored plan 
• Having a baby or adopting a child 
• Losing health insurance 
• Moving and gaining access to new health plans through Covered California that were not available where you previously lived 
• Gaining citizenship or lawful presence

Make a healthy beginning to your lives together — with affordable, brand-name health insurance through Covered California.

Learn more about your options by visiting CoveredCA.com, or you can:

• Get free and confidential assistance over the phone, in a variety of languages, from one of more than 14,000 certified agents and community-based organizations throughout the state that provide free, confidential help. 
• Have a certified enroller call you and help you for free. 
• Call Covered California to enroll at (800) 300-1506.