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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.

November 18, 2025

•Health Care Costs/Affordability, Health Insurance Coverage

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.

October 13, 2025

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.

October 13, 2025

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.

October 13, 2025

Knowledge Center

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?

October 13, 2025

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Report

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.

November 19, 2024

•Primary Care

Report

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.

May 7, 2024

•Primary Care

Quick Read

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.

March 17, 2023

•Health Insurance Coverage

Report

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.

May 17, 2022

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Behind the Headlines

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.

August 30, 2021

•Health Insurance Coverage

Report

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…

April 24, 2020

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Behind the Headlines

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.

January 27, 2020

•Health Insurance Coverage

Behind the Headlines

As 2020 Race Revs Up, CNN Asks Americans About Health Care

Stories That Caught Our Attention: New polling shows how people are thinking about key health care issues.

July 8, 2019

•Facts and Data

Data Insight

Affordability on California’s Individual Market Under the ACA

This issue brief explores trends in key data on the affordability of health coverage in California, to highlight both progress and remaining challenges to affordability on the state’s individual market under the ACA.

May 30, 2019

•Health Care Costs/Affordability

Quick Read

Health Care Sharing Ministries: Characteristics and California Market

This presentation describes health care sharing ministries (HCSMs), how prevalent they are in California, the current landscape of state and federal regulations around them, and potential questions for regulators.

April 23, 2019

•Health Insurance Coverage

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California Health Benefits Survey 2025

Not Enough Prevention in Health Care

Unfair Pricing and Too Few Choices

Administrative Waste

The 25% Problem: Why Health Care Is So Expensive (And What We Can Do About It)

Strengthening Independent Primary Care Practice in California

Private Equity in Health Care: Prevalence, Impact and Policy Options for California and the U.S.

A Partnership of Equals: Early Lessons from Mergers of Similarly Sized and Positioned Health Centers

Health Insurance and Health Care Affordability Perceptions Among Individual Insurance Market Enrollees in California in 2021

Will Unvaccinated Respond to COVID-19 Vaccine Approval, Mandates, and the Delta Surge?

Examining the Authority of California’s Attorney General in Health Care Mergers

Covered California Enrollment Deadline Looms

As 2020 Race Revs Up, CNN Asks Americans About Health Care

Affordability on California’s Individual Market Under the ACA

Health Care Sharing Ministries: Characteristics and California Market

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