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Findings from CHCF’s Regional Market Report on San Joaquin Valley
Don’t miss CHCF’s San Joaquin Valley Market Report Webinar on February 5, 2026. Get the latest data, hear from local leaders, and learn what’s shaping health care in the valley. Register today to join the conversation!
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California Health Benefits Survey 2025
The California Health Benefits Survey tracks trends in employees’ coverage, including premiums, employee premium contributions, cost sharing, offer rates, and employer benefit strategies.
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Not Enough Prevention in Health Care
The U.S. spends only about 5 cents of every health care dollar on primary care. Other high-income countries spend three times that much. This chronic underinvestment creates a cascade of problems.
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Unfair Pricing and Too Few Choices
Health care spending depends on two things: how much care patients get and the prices that are charged for that care. In California, there is a big problem with pricing.
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Administrative Waste
The U.S. spends five times more on administrative health care functions than other wealthy nations, on average. It’s like this because our systems are not standardized, automated, or easily connected.
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The 25% Problem: Why Health Care Is So Expensive (And What We Can Do About It)
Health care costs hurt Californians every day. Millions can’t afford the care they need. More than half of all Californians skip or delay getting care because it costs too much. How did we get here?
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Health Insurance Coverage
Our work on health insurance focuses on expanding and strengthening coverage for all Californians. We support policies and programs that improve Medi-Cal enrollment, reduce the number of uninsured residents, and ensure that coverage translates to meaningful access, particularly for communities…
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Private Insurance Market
Our research on California’s private insurance market tracks premium trends, benefit design changes, and market competition. We analyze affordability challenges for individuals and employers — examining how policy decisions and market dynamics affect coverage access and financial protection.
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Strengthening Independent Primary Care Practice in California
The objective of this brief is to increase understanding of small independent primary care practices in California among purchasers and policymakers, with the goal of identifying opportunities to strengthen and sustain them.
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Private Equity in Health Care: Prevalence, Impact and Policy Options for California and the U.S.
This brief describes national and California-specific trends in private equity acquisitions of health care service providers, such as outpatient clinics, hospitals and nursing homes.
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A Partnership of Equals: Early Lessons from Mergers of Similarly Sized and Positioned Health Centers
This issue brief explores two mergers of similarly sized FQHCs in California in the last two years.
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Health Insurance and Health Care Affordability Perceptions Among Individual Insurance Market Enrollees in California in 2021
This 2021 survey sought to better understand if Californians purchasing their health insurance on the individual market perceived their coverage to be affordable.
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Will Unvaccinated Respond to COVID-19 Vaccine Approval, Mandates, and the Delta Surge?
Stories That Caught Our Attention: Hospitals in California counties with low vaccination rates are flooded with COVID-19 patients.
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Examining the Authority of California’s Attorney General in Health Care Mergers
The health care industry has recently experienced horizontal, vertical, and cross-market consolidation unprecedented in scale and scope. This report examines the California attorney general’s existing merger oversight authority, compares that to the authority held by other state AGs, and then…
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Covered California Enrollment Deadline Looms
Stories That Caught Our Attention: The deadline to enroll in a health insurance plan through Covered California is drawing near, but consumers this week can sign up and avoid the new state penalty.
