By Eliza Torralba, Photo: Unsplash, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, January 31, 2022
In 2020, more than 2.5 million California children, adolescents, and adults (ages 0–64) still have no health insurance coverage, as detailed in a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR), The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings From the 2019 and 2020 California Health Interview Surveys.
With California’s revived attempts to achieve universal healthcare coverage through proposed legislation, the state has long been known as a primary voice in the “health care for all” debate. But even taking smaller steps toward that goal would help Californians who lack insurance, according to the study’s authors.
“Even incremental expansion to health insurance eligibility would help California meet our remaining challenges, although the proposed comprehensive overhaul of our insurance system could also improve access to care for everyone,” said Shana Charles, PhD, UCLA CHPR faculty associate and lead author of the study. “The question remains whether there is both the political will and the public financing needed for any of these steps forward.”
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