Issue Briefs
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Centering Equity in Maternal Care: Unpacking California’s Medi-Cal Doula Services Implementation
July 21, 2025
The last ITUP publication, Centering Equity in Maternal Care: Unpacking California’s Medi-Cal Doula Services Implementation, explores the promise and challenges of the Medi-Cal doula benefit through a health equity lens.
Read MoreCentering Equity in Maternal Care: Unpacking California’s Medi-Cal Doula Services Implementation
July 21, 2025
The last ITUP publication, Centering Equity in Maternal Care: Unpacking California’s Medi-Cal Doula Services Implementation, explores the promise and challenges of the Medi-Cal doula benefit through a health equity lens.
Read MoreExamining Incarceration Drivers and Promising Solutions Issue Brief
June 18, 2025
This ITUP Fact Sheet highlights insights from Shasta, San Joaquin, and Stanislaus counties, rural communities navigating service gaps, social drivers of incarceration, and community-led solutions to support justice-involved populations.
Read MoreKey Takeaways: 2024 ITUP Regional Equity Collaboratives
October 14, 2024
This report highlights the valuable insights and community-driven solutions shared during the 2024 ITUP Regional Equity Collaboratives.
Read MoreLeveraging Data to Advance Health Equity and Success in CalAIM
April 4, 2024
This ITUP issue brief highlights the critical role of accessible and equitable data policy and infrastructure in the success of California’s CalAIM Initiative.
Read MoreMaking Medi-Cal Work for California Farmworkers
December 7, 2023
This issue brief spotlights three actionable ways, identified from work with farmworker advocates and stakeholders, policymakers can use to make the Medi-Cal system work for California farmworkers.
Read MoreExpanding Health Coverage for California Farmworkers
July 27, 2023
This issue brief emphasizes three actionable ways policymakers can expand access to coverage for farmworkers.
Read MoreAddressing Digital Equity for Equitable, Accessible Health Care
June 1, 2023
The latest ITUP issue brief emphasizes the pivotal moment California is in to advance digital equity and broadband and connectivity.
Read MoreITUP Broadband Bootcamp Report
May 15, 2023
This ITUP bootcamp report highlights findings from ITUP’s broadband bootcamp that will be used to inform the State’s Digital Equity Plan.
Read MorePublic Option in California (Winter 2020)
December 16, 2020
The latest ITUP Public Option ESSENTIALS refreshes past ITUP publications from 2018 and early 2020 to update and better inform policy discussions on what a public option might look like in California.
Read MorePublic Option in California
March 12, 2020
This issue of ITUP ESSENTIALS reviews through a California lens issues and concepts related to a state-level public option for individual coverage.
Read MoreCalifornia Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM)
February 21, 2020
California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) is the newest ITUP Health Policy Essentials. This issue brief provides an overview of CalAIM, the related proposals in the Governor’s 2020-21 budget, and highlights potential issues and questions to inform the analysis and review of CalAIM currently underway.
Read MoreNotes From the Field: Care Coordination in California
February 18, 2020
This report highlights key findings from the 2019 ITUP regional workgroup discussions on care coordination in Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program. The discussions were timely and informative and reflect the complexity of the care coordination challenges in California.
Read MoreMedi-Cal Waivers Discussion Guide
October 3, 2019
This discussion guide is a companion document to the Mapping the Future issue brief, and focuses on the waivers, and the state process for addressing the issues presented by the 2020 deadline, as policymakers and stakeholders consider the implications and next steps for Medi-Cal.
Read MoreDiscussion Guide for the 2019 Regional Workgroups: Care Coordination
July 16, 2019
This discussion guide provides general background to support the 2019 regional workgroup conversations around care coordination challenges, best practices and policy recommendations.
Read MoreMapping the Future of Individual Health Insurance
May 19, 2019
Mapping the Future of Individual Health Insurance and the companion publication, Mapping the Future of Medi-Cal, following up on the 2019 ITUP conference, take an in-depth look at the issues for these two coverage options likely to engage policymakers and stakeholders.
Read MoreMapping the Future of Medi-Cal
March 12, 2019
Mapping the Future of Medi-Cal and the companion publication, Mapping the Future of Individual Health Insurance, following up on the 2019 ITUP conference, take an in-depth look at the issues for these two coverage options likely to engage policymakers and stakeholders in the near future.
Read MoreCovered California and Individual Health Insurance
March 12, 2019
Covered California and Individual Health Insurance is the newest ITUP Health Policy Essentials. Get the basics on California’s state-based exchange and the market for individual coverage.
Read MoreNotes from the Field: Behavioral Health in California
February 2, 2019
This report outlines background on Medi-Cal mental health and substance use disorder treatment in California, and highlights key findings from 2018 ITUP regional workgroup discussions.
Read MoreUPDATE: California Strategies: Covering California’s Remaining Uninsured and Improving Affordability
October 8, 2018
This updated issue brief analyzes policy proposals advanced in 2018 to move the state closer to universal coverage by focusing on the challenges many Californians face.
Read MoreCalifornia’s Health Care Safety Net
June 26, 2018
ITUP is pleased to release a new report, California’s Health Care Safety Net, the first in a new ITUP series, Health Policy Essentials, highlighting the basics on California health care programs and policy issues. This first issue brief focuses on the programs, providers and populations that make-up the state’s health care safety net for low-income and underserved communities.
Read MoreCalifornia Strategies: Covering California’s Remaining Uninsured and Improving Affordability
June 7, 2018
This issue brief analyzes policy proposals advanced this year to move the state closer to universal coverage by focusing on the challenges many Californians face.
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.
Read MoreNotes from the Field: Immigrant Communities in California Under the Cloud of Immigration Enforcement
February 14, 2018
In 2017, ITUP hosted annual workgroups throughout California, 10 regional workgroups and two collaboratives in Los Angeles. This report includes background on the legal complexities at the intersection of immigration policy and health access, and highlights key themes from the workgroup discussions.
Read MoreITUP ACA Watch, Issue 4 — The ACA and Medi-Cal: What’s at Stake?
May 25, 2017
This issue of ACA Watch highlights program and population changes that re-shaped Medi-Cal under ACA. In addition to expanding coverage for some of the state’s most disenfranchised residents, the ACA dramatically altered the demographic profile and scope of the Medi-Cal program.
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