Californians maintain health insurance coverage despite national trends
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Health policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)
- Author(s):
- Becker, Tara, author Ponce, Ninez A., author
- Contributor(s):
- UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, October 2019
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data Insurance Coverage -- trends Insurance, Health -- statistics & numerical data Insurance, Health -- trends African Americans Asian Americans European Continental Ancestry Group Forecasting Hispanic Americans Income Medicaid Medically Uninsured -- statistics & numerical data Poverty State Government Humans California United States United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The proportion of Americans who went without health insurance significantly declined after full implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014. However, the new federal administration in 2017 and 2018 made policy changes to the health law, and the national uninsurance rate rose in 2018. In contrast, California's uninsurance rate remained low (8.1%) in 2018, associated with a stronger economy and state efforts to mitigate policy changes affecting the private purchase market. Racial and ethnic groups in 2018 maintained uninsurance rates that had already been cut in half since 2013, although Latino Californians still had rates twice as high as those of other racial and ethnic groups. Uninsured rates were also cut in half between 2013 and 2018 for low- and middle-income households. Higher-income households (400% of the federal poverty guideline and above) experienced smaller declines, though this group already had the lowest rates. State and local policies that target the cost of insurance coverage for those who are ineligible for public health insurance programs may help to further reduce this gap in the future.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (5 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101757875 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101757875