Author: Emili LaBass
Mapping 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 in the near…
Read MoreITUP Review of the 2019-20 Budget May Revision
May 14, 2019
Last Thursday, Governor Newsom announced the May Revision to his 2019-20 proposed budget, maintaining proposals to expand health care coverage and improve the affordability of individual coverage originally proposed in January. The May revision also includes and augments investment…
Read MoreFederal Administration’s Refusal to Defend the ACA
March 29, 2019
By Garrett Hall The recent decision of the U.S. Department of Justice to change course and support a federal court finding that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional could have significant impacts for California if ultimately affirmed. The Department of Justice…
Read More2019 County Medically Indigent Care Programs
March 21, 2019
This version of ITUP Tracking provides an update to the ITUP 2017 Review of Medically Indigent Adult (MIA) programs administered by counties for low-income uninsured adults. The history of how counties provide health care safety-net services follows a complex winding road intersecting…
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…
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. View Document
Read MoreHealth Bills Introduced: California Legislative Session 2019-20
March 4, 2019
The deadline to introduce legislation for the 2019-20 legislative session was February 22, 2019. The Legislature introduced nearly 1,000 health-related bills, including approximately 160 bills focused on behavioral health issues. The attached fact sheet provides a brief description…
Read More2019-20 Introduced Legislation
March 4, 2019
The deadline for bill introduction in California’s 2019-20 legislative session was February 22, 2019. Before the deadline, the Legislature introduced 2,687 bills and resolutions including almost 1,000 health-related bills. This fact sheet offers a preliminary review of various bills…
Read MoreITUP Issues Comments on Public Charge
December 4, 2018
by Elia Gallardo ITUP Comments on the Proposed Federal Rule Affecting Public Charge ITUP Joins More Than 100,000 Commenters to Date In comments addressed to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP) expressed deep concern with the proposed…
Read MoreNew Projections Estimate the Uninsured will Rise in California
November 28, 2018
By Trish Violett In the years since implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) California made steady progress in reducing the number of uninsured in the state. According to newly released projections from the California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM), a micro-simulation…
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