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2018 California At-A-Glance
June 22, 2018
The California At-A-Glance provides information on the remaining uninsured and coverage in California. View Document
Read MoreRemaining Uninsured in California (Revised and Updated, April 2018)
April 27, 2018
California fully embraced the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) with dramatic results. California’s uninsured rate is currently at just 7 percent overall and 8.1 percent among those under 65 years old. In the years prior to the ACA, California’s uninsured rate hovered between…
Read MoreNew CMS Data on ACA Marketplace Enrollment Shows Covered California Stays the Course
April 6, 2018
This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released 2018 enrollment data for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces, easing fears that enrollment would drop significantly because of federal legislative and administrative efforts to undermine the ACA. Enrollment…
Read MoreStabilizing the Individual Market after Federal Efforts Stall
March 28, 2018
When President Trump signed the federal Omnibus spending bill on March 23, 2018, the bill did not include language or funding to stabilize the individual market under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A bipartisan group of lawmakers had been working on strategies to prevent major premium…
Read MoreExploring Public Options in California
March 20, 2018
This ITUP report looks at public plan choice, the “public option,” through a California lens. ITUP identifies the unique circumstances in California relevant for the discussion about public options and outlines how a California public option might be structured. California…
Read MoreTestimony: Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for College Students
March 14, 2018
Joint Senate Committee on Health and Senate Committee on Education Informational Hearing. (more…)
Read More2017-18 Legislative Session Bills in California
March 12, 2018
The deadline for introducing legislation in the second year of the 2017-18 legislative session was last month. Health Committees in both houses begin bill hearings this week on 2018 bills and on two-year bills that remain eligible for action. Preserving Affordable Care Act (ACA)…
Read MoreRecent Federal Budget Actions Affect Health Care Programs
February 15, 2018
In recent weeks, Congress passed another in a series of short-term budget resolutions for the 2018 Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) and the President announced his blueprint for the 2019 FFY budget. These federal developments will substantially affect health care programs, including the…
Read MoreHealth Care Reform: 2017 Year-In-Review
January 7, 2018
Because California embraced the opportunities available under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 2017 began and ended with California reaching historic low rates of uninsured. The uninsured rate in California was 7.1 percent at the end of 2016 falling to 6.8 percent in the first half…
Read MoreTax Reform, the Individual Mandate, and the Vulnerability of the Individual Market in California
December 6, 2017
Although Congressional efforts to repeal or rollback the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have failed to date, the just-passed Republican-controlled U.S. Senate tax bill (House Resolution 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) includes a provision that is very likely to undermine ACA implementation…
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