Six and one-half million Californians were uninsured for all or some of 2005, a number that is as large as the combined populations of nine other states. The number of uninsured represented one in five children and nonelderly adults, a rate that was slightly lower than in 2003 due to California's tight labor markets and expanding enrollment and retention in California's public coverage programs for children. These marginal improvements are unlikely to continue unabated given the instability of employment-based insurance coverage in the face of rising costs. In this policy brief, we compare insurance coverage over time using the California Health Interview Surveys conducted in 2001, 2003 and 2005. We look at the type of coverage over the past 12 months for both children and nonelederly adults.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Use of preferred contraceptive method among young adults in Texas and California: A comparison by state and insurance coverage.
PLoS One
September 2023
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
Background: Young people's ability to use their preferred contraceptive method is an indicator of reproductive autonomy and healthcare access. State policies can hinder or facilitate access to a preferred contraceptive method.
Objective: This study compared use of preferred contraceptive method in Texas and California, states with contrasting health policy contexts that impact health insurance coverage and access to subsidized family planning services.
Health insurance, healthcare utilization and language use among populations who experience risk for tuberculosis, California 2014-2017.
PLoS One
May 2022
Tuberculosis Control Branch, Division of Communicable Disease Control, Center for Infectious Diseases, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, United States of America.
Background: California tuberculosis (TB) prevention goals include testing more than ten million at-risk Californians and treating two million infected with tuberculosis. Adequate health insurance and robust healthcare utilization are crucial to meeting these goals, but information on these factors for populations that experience risk for TB is limited.
Methods: We used data from the 2014-2017 California Health Interview Survey (n = 82,758), a population-based dual-frame telephone survey to calculate survey proportions and 95% confidence intervals (CI) stratified by country of birth, focusing on persons from countries of birth with the highest number of TB cases in California.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 and the Case to Cover Undocumented Immigrants in California.
Health Equity
November 2020
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Latinos have been affected at higher rates in California. These include undocumented immigrants who are the largest group of Californians that remains uninsured. This population has limited access to health care services and coverage options.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReducing Access Disparities in California by Insuring Low-Income Undocumented Adults.
Policy Brief UCLA Cent Health Policy Res
February 2019
While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law in 2010, expanded health insurance coverage to millions of Californians, it did not extend eligibility for coverage to undocumented U.S. residents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCovering All Californians: The Authors Reply.
Health Aff (Millwood)
February 2019
Los Angeles, California.
Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!