The 'bad old days': Two-thirds of California's 6.6 million uninsured lacked coverage for more than a year prior to health reform
More than 4.1 million of the state's uninsured ― 12.6 percent of the state's nonelderly population ― went without insurance for more than a year in 2013, and an additional 2.5 million fell in and out of the ranks of the insured, according to a new UCLA Center for Health Policy Research fact sheet.