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Housing discrimination in California disproportionately affects historically marginalized communities

California Health Interview Survey data show notable differences by race and ethnicity, gender identity, disability status

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UCLA Center for Health Policy Research receives grant to support data equity work

The $800,000 grant will help the Data Equity Center provide assistance to projects across the country.

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‘Hate is not felt equally’: study reveals who is more likely to experience hate acts

California Health Interview Survey data show which groups of Californians are among the most targeted

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Report examines important considerations for a unified health care financing plan in California

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research studied the role of health plans, provider payments, and benefits, and how they could affect access, quality, and equity

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January 17, 2025

Mark A. Peterson on how California health programs could change with second Trump administration

In a conversation moderated by “Forum” co-host Alexis Madrigal, Peterson provided insights into the what’s motivating the Republican ideas, past attempts to revamp health care, and what’s at stake this year

Researchers awarded grant to study COVID-19 response through California Medicaid program

December 10, 2020

Researchers awarded grant to study COVID-19 response through California Medicaid program

UCLA CHPR received a $200,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

New report highlights lesser known factors that impact insurance rates after ACA

New report highlights lesser known factors that impact insurance rates after ACA

A decade after the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted to expand health insurance coverage to the nation's most vulnerable uninsured, a new report by researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and Claremont Graduate University addresses the question: How large of an impact has the ACA made over the past 10 years?

California program is a good step toward coordinating care for high-needs patients, study finds

October 07, 2019

California program is a good step toward coordinating care for high-needs patients, study finds

An evaluation by UCLA researchers has found that a California program launched in 2016 has been a positive step toward providing better-coordinated health care for people insured by Medicaid. Initial findings from the ongoing analysis were published today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Despite health insurance gains in California, Latinos still lag in coverage, access

August 29, 2019

Despite health insurance gains in California, Latinos still lag in coverage, access

Despite vital health insurance coverage gains in California under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Latinos continue to fall behind other racial and ethnic groups in coverage and access to health care. A study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research finds that Latinos are less likely to have health insurance due to lack of coverage through an employer and barriers such as citizenship restrictions on access.

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September 27, 2017

"People often went by word of mouth ― from friends, family, their current doctors ― to decide whether to remain enrolled (in Cal MediConnect), but the information from those sources wasn't always accurate."

Kate McBride is a graduate student researcher at the Center and lead author of a new policy brief on medically fragile Angelenos who rejected a new managed care health plan, Cal MediConnect. In this brief interview, McBride discusses the high rate of opt-outs for the program, the tug between care and cost, and how Cal MediConnect can keep people in their existing care networks.

Medicaid waiver program helped public hospitals improve care to California’s most needy

Medicaid waiver program helped public hospitals improve care to California’s most needy

Results UCLA report are the first from a national effort to reform public hospitals. A five-year Medicaid waiver program that infused billions of dollars into public hospitals prompted significant improvements in health care to California’s neediest population — the poor and uninsured, according to an extensive evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Federal budget would win — but the most vulnerable and poor would lose — under ‘capped’ Medicaid funding scenarios

Federal budget would win — but the most vulnerable and poor would lose — under ‘capped’ Medicaid funding scenarios

UCLA report finds that big cuts to health care benefits would hurt the disabled, children and elderly Americans. The Trump administration’s intent to reform Medicaid includes financing changes that would save hundreds of billions in federal dollars over time, but at the expense of cutting significant health care benefits to tens of millions of the program’s most vulnerable recipients — the disabled, children and elderly Americans.

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"Capped funding will force states to make hard choices about who 'deserves' health care coverage."

Haleigh Mager-Mardeusz is a co-author of the new policy brief on how GOP changes to Medicaid could affect health care for tens of millions of low-income Americans. In this brief interview, she discusses why Republicans favor "capped" financing, the political risk of undoing the ACA, and the likelihood of Medicaid caps being enacted.

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February 28, 2017

Three Questions with Jack Needleman on Medicaid

Jack Needleman is chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a faculty associate at the Center. He was a panelist at the Feb. 15 Grand Rounds seminar on how repeal of the ACA would affect safety net providers and moderated the Jan. 25 Paul Torrens Health Forum on planning for changes to the ACA.