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•	National Health Care Reform Will Help Four Million Uninsured Adults and Children in California Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown This fact sheet looks at the likely implications of national health care reform efforts on health insurance coverage in California.	Fact Sheet	Oct 2009

•	The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey E. Richard Brown, Richard Kronick, Ninez A. Ponce, Jennifer R. Kincheloe, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Erin Peckham This comprehensive, biennial report provides an overview of insurance trends throughout the state and looks specifically at coverage of California's working adults, elderly as well as children's coverage.	Policy Research Report	Aug 2009

•	Politics and Policy in State Health Reform Walter Zelman, Alex Melamed The purpose of this issue brief is to enhance understanding of the politics of health insurance coverage expansion efforts, thereby increasing the probabilities that such expansions may be achieved.	Policy Research Report	Jun 2009

•	Swimming Upstream: The Hard Politics of Health Reform in California Walter Zelman This report provides a comprehensive examination of political, policy, and economic factors that contributed to the failure of California's 2007 health care reform effort.	Policy Research Report	Jun 2009

•	How Much Choice Is Too Much? The Case of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Health Services Research) Yaniv Hanoch, Thomas Rice, Janet Cummings, Stacey Wood Researchers study the impact of the number of choices and age on measures of performance in choosing a Medicare prescription drug plan.	Journal Article	May 2009

•	Half a Million Older Californians Living Alone Unable to Make Ends Meet Steven P. Wallace, Susan E. Smith Using the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index), the authors of this policy brief find that nearly half a million elders (495,000) living alone in California in 2007 could not make ends meet—lacking sufficient income to pay for a minimum level of housing, food, health care, transportation and other basic expenses.	Policy Brief	Feb 2009

•	Migration and Health: Latinos in the United States Steven P. Wallace, Xóchitl Castañeda This landmark report describes patterns and trends associated with Latin American, in particular, Mexican migration to the United States.	Research Report	Oct 2008

•	Health of California's Adults, Adolescents and Children: Findings from CHIS 2005 and CHIS 2003 Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Y. Jenny Chia, Nicole Lordi, David Grant, Mirabai Rao This report provides a summary of the statewide findings from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), with highlights of changes from 2003 to 2005.	Research Report	Sep 2008

•	Federal Poverty Guideline Underestimates Costs of Living for Older Persons in California Steven P. Wallace, L. Cricel Molina The federal poverty guideline, used to determine income eligibility for many public programs, covers less than half of the basic costs experienced by adults age 65 and older in the state.	Policy Brief	Feb 2008

•	Health Coverage Expansion in California: What Can Consumers Afford to Spend? Ken Jacobs, Korey Capozza, Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski, E. Richard Brown This research brief, jointly authored by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, finds that many California families spend a substantial amount of their annual income on health care premiums and out-of-pockets costs, and could face financially devastating medical expenses if they are not adequately protected.	Policy Brief	Sep 2007

•	Expansion of Health Insurance in California Unlikely to Act as Magnet for Undocumented Immigration Joshua S. Yang, Steven P. Wallace New expansions of health insurance in California are unlikely to attract additional undocumented immigrants to the state, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.	Policy Brief	Jul 2007

•	The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Ninez A. Ponce, Jean Yoon, Janet Cummings, Thomas Rice This report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that job-based health insurance coverage -- the backbone of the state's system of health insurance – continues to decline.	Research Report	Jul 2007

•	Health Insurance Coverage Fact Sheets for California Counties and Regions UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Using data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research were able to produce these fact sheets detailing health insurance coverage, the lack of coverage, and demographic characteristics for counties and regions in California.	Fact Sheet	Apr 2007

•	More than Half of California's Uninsured Children Eligible for Public Programs But Not Enrolled Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown, Jean Yoon, Sungching Glenn Using data from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, researchers found that more than half of the uninsured children in California are eligible for public programs but are not enrolled, a further sign of the limitations in current health insurance arrangements.	Fact Sheet	Oct 2006

•	One in Five Californians Were Uninsured in 2005 Despite Modest Gains in Coverage Jean Yoon, E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda, Sungching Glenn Despite marginal improvements in job-based health insurance for adults and public program enrollment for children, one in five (6.5 ...	Policy Brief	Oct 2006

•	Insured Californians Report High Satisfaction with Health Care Gerald F. Kominski, Meghan E. Cameron, Dylan H. Roby More than 96 percent (nearly 24 million) of insured Californians report "good" or better satisfaction with their health care.	Policy Brief	Jun 2006

•	High Cost of Insurance Outweighs Other Barriers for Mid-Size Firms Nadereh Pourat, Jay C. Ripps The continued decline of employment-based coverage in California and more than 6.6 million uninsured residents are major reasons for concern, since health insurance is the primary means by which health care for employed persons and their families is financed in the state.	Policy Research Report	Jun 2006

•	Language Barriers to Health Care Access Among Medicare Beneficiaries (Inquiry) Ninez A. Ponce, Leighton Ku, William E. Cunningham, E. Richard Brown Ponce NA, Ku L, Cunningham W, Brown ER. Language Barriers to Health Care Access Among Medicare Beneficiaries.	Journal Article	Apr 2006

•	Increased Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services: What are the Causes? (Inquiry) Melinda J. Beeuwkes Buntin, Jose J. Escarce, Dana Goldman, Hongjun Kan, Miriam J. Laugesen, Paul Shekelle In light of rising expenditures for physicians' services and the scheduled decreases in the amounts Medicare pays for such services, this article identified the sources of change in the volume and intensity of Medicare physicians' services.	Journal Article	Jun 2004

•	Health of California’s Adults, Adolescents and Children: Findings from CHIS 2001 Sue Holtby, Elaine Zahnd, Wei Yen, Nicole Lordi, Christy McCain, Charles A. DiSogra This report summarizes selected findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey. A broad range of health topics are addressed.	Research Report	May 2004

•	Cancer Screening in California: Findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey Ninez A. Ponce, Susan H. Babey, David A. Etzioni, Benjamin A. Spencer, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla This in-depth report describes cancer screening in California based on data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001), the largest state-level health survey in the nation.	Research Report	Dec 2003

•	Diabetes in California: Nearly 1.5 Million Diagnosed and 2 Million More at Risk Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla	Policy Brief	Apr 2003

•	Diabetes in California: Findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey Allison L. Diamant, Susan H. Babey, E. Richard Brown, Neetu Chawla This report, prepared by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is the first on diabetes prevalence among Californians using data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001).	Policy Research Report	Apr 2003

•	Over Half of California's 6.3 Million Uninsured Lack Health Coverage for More Than a Year E. Richard Brown, Shana Alex Lavarreda The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research prepared this new fact sheet report as part of its participation in the Cover the Uninsured Week (CTUW) campaign - an unprecedented week long series of national and local activities taking place during the week of Monday, March 10, through Friday, March 14.	Fact Sheet	Mar 2003

•	The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey E. Richard Brown, Ninez A. Ponce, Thomas Rice, Shana Alex Lavarreda This report examines health insurance coverage in California based on the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001) data.	Research Report	Jun 2002

•	Who Switches from Medigap to Medicare HMOs? (Health Services Research) Thomas Rice, Rani E. Snyder, Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat Rice T, Synder RE, Kominski GF, Pourat N. Who Switches from Medigap to Medicare HMOs? Health Services Research. ...	Journal Article	Apr 2002

•	Access is Better for Racial / Ethnic Elderly in Medicare HMOs - But Disparities Exist Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa, Vilma Enriquez-Haass, Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck	Policy Brief	May 2001

•	Socioeconomic Differences in Medicare Supplemental Coverage (Health Affairs) Nadereh Pourat, Thomas Rice, Gerald F. Kominski, Rani E. Snyder Pourat N, Rice T, Kominski GF, Snyder R. Socioeconomic Differences in Medicare Supplemental Coverage.	Journal Article	Oct 2000

•	California Immigrants Have Mostly Lower Rates of Disability and Use of Disability Services than State’s U.S.-Born Residents A. E. Benjamin, Steven P. Wallace, Valentine M. Villa, Kathy McCarthy	Policy Brief	Jul 2000

•	The Use of Relative Value Scales for Provider Reimbursement in State Workers Compensation Programs Gerald F. Kominski, Nadereh Pourat, Jeanne T. Black This report provides information on how other states are using Relative Value Scales, including the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) used by Medicare, as part of their workers compensation programs.	Research Report	Aug 1999

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