Nearly 2.5 million nonelderly California women uninsured at some time during 2007.

Health insurance coverage is a key component of access to the health care system. For women, such coverage facilitates access to the array of services they require across their lifetimes. This brief provides an overview of uninsured women ages 18--64 in California, examining subgroups of women at higher risk of being without coverage and looking at family incomes of uninsured women and at uninsured rates across counties. The information in the brief is based on data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2007).