Expanding Health Coverage - California Health Care Foundation

Expanding Health Coverage
Under the Affordable Care Act, millions of Californians obtained health coverage, and the state’s insured rate rose to an all-time high. Much work remains, however, to ensure that all Californians can get and stay covered. CHCF produces data and analyses to inform efforts to protect coverage gains and further expand coverage so that all Californians can get the health care they need.

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State, Federal Actions Protected Health Coverage for Millions During Pandemic

September 27, 2021

Heather Tirado Gilligan

Expanding Health Coverage, Medi-Cal, Coverage Trends

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The percentage of Americans with health insurance remained stable during 2020 despite a hobbled economy.

ACA Health Insurance Enrollment Sets New Record

Heather Tirado Gilligan

Expanding Health Coverage

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Experts say total Affordable Care plan signups were probably undercounted because of data-gathering limitations.

We’re All in This Together

Sandra R. Hernández

Medi-Cal, Expanding Health Coverage, Health Equity

Since 2016, California has expanded Medi-Cal eligibility to include kids and young adults from low-income households, regardless of immigration status. Now the state has a golden opportunity to finish that job.

American Rescue Plan Improvements to Covered California Affordability: Who Gains?

Miranda Dietz, Srikanth Kadiyala, Tynan Challenor, Annie Rak, Dylan H. Roby, Laurel Lucia, Gerald F. Kominski

Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends

Over 1.6 million Californians will benefit from the rescue plan, including 151,000 individual market enrollees who will qualify for subsidies for the first time and 135,000 uninsured people who will become insured.

Undocumented Projected to Remain California’s Largest Group of Uninsured in 2022

Miranda Dietz, Laurel Lucia, Srikanth Kadiyala, Tynan Challenor, Annie Rak, Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski

Expanding Health Coverage, Medi-Cal, Coverage Trends

Even after the American Rescue Plan increases premium subsidies for health insurance purchased through Covered California, large inequities remain in who has access to affordable coverage.

COVID-19 Relief: The Down Payment America Needs

Sandra R. Hernández

Expanding Health Coverage, Health Equity

The American Rescue Plan Act is a bold and comprehensive federal response built on an accurate understanding of the roots of the pandemic crises.

State Public Options: Comparing Models from Across the Country

Expanding Health Coverage

This issue brief outlines some of the problems states are addressing with their public option proposals, reports the proposals’ current status, categorizes public option proposals into archetypes, and identifies issues for California policymakers as they explore a state-based public option.

What Are the Biden Administration’s Health Policy Priorities?

Billy Wynne, Dawn Joyce

Expanding Health Coverage, Maternal Health

When it comes to health care, the fledgling administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hit the ground running.

A Time to Be Hopeful Again

February 11, 2021

Sandra R. Hernández

Health Equity, Expanding Health Coverage

Recovering from a woeful period in our nation's history will take a long time, and we won’t get there without hope. From that perspective, we are off to a good start.

Biden’s Panel Outlines Proactive Pandemic Response as COVID-19 Toll Soars

November 16, 2020

Xenia Shih Bion

Health Equity, Expanding Health Coverage

Stories That Caught Our Attention: President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have wasted no time preparing their response to the rapidly worsening coronavirus pandemic.

What’s Next for Health Care Policy Under a Biden Administration

Wynne Health Group

Expanding Health Coverage, Health Equity, Telehealth

This issue brief examines the authorities and processes available to President-elect Biden to pursue and implement his policy agenda, whether regulatory or legislative; the policies that are likely to define the Biden health care agenda; and how the potential fate of these initiatives will unfold during his first term.

This Legal Attack on the ACA Could Be the Big One

September 28, 2020

Xenia Shih Bion

Medi-Cal, Health Equity, Expanding Health Coverage

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Supporters of the landmark health care law are feeling uneasy about future rulings on it by the US Supreme Court.

After Justice Ginsburg’s Loss, What a New Court Could Mean for the ACA

September 22, 2020

Expanding Health Coverage, Health Equity

Her death has led to a flood of questions about what comes next for the US Supreme Court and the country.

Medicaid Is Essential for Workers as COVID-19 Spreads

August 17, 2020

Xenia Shih Bion

Expanding Health Coverage, Medi-Cal, Health Equity

Stories That Caught Our Attention: On August 4, Missouri voters narrowly approved the expansion of the state’s Medicaid program via ballot initiative, making it the second politically right-leaning state to do so during the pandemic.

Rule Cutting ACA’s Transgender, Other Civil Rights Protections Called Into Question by Supreme Court

Timothy S. Jost

Expanding Health Coverage

The high court's landmark ruling protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination.