Center in the News List
Aug 27, 2025
On U.S. direction under Trump, Californians split sharply along partisan lines, poll finds (paywall)
Nadereh Pourat, associate center director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered expertise on how federal Medicaid work requirements will likely lead to people losing their health coverage.
Aug 22, 2025
Imelda Padilla-Frausto, research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, discussed how a projected 2.7% cost-of-living adjustment to social security could leave many recipients with less buying power.
Aug 22, 2025
Kekoa Taparra, who is part of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, co-authored a study published in Frontiers in Climate that analyzed deaths during the August 2023 wildfires on Maui.
Aug 17, 2025
Gerald F. Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided expert context to explain how some Americans who have health insurance still end up facing medical debt and thus may move to another with more affordable health care.
Aug 13, 2025
Ninez A. Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is mentioned in this profile of Fabiola Perez-Lua, a recipient of a UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program award.
Jul 30, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research affiliate Ashvin Gandhi co-authored a study shows how the cost-saving measure of soft spending caps in Medicare disproportionately affected affect racialized minorities and low-income people the most.
Jul 29, 2025
Garen Corbett, executive director of the California Health Benefits Review Program and affiliate of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was quoted in this article about CalPERS choosing CVS Caremark as its new pharmacy benefit manager.
Jul 28, 2025
Naomi Zewde, fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, spoke to Planet Money's "The Indicator" podcast about the federally funded $1,000 accounts for newborns in the recently adopted budget and how they measure up to baby bonds in addressing wealth inequality.
Jul 24, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Senior Fellow Arturo Vargas Bustamante was quoted in this column about how immigrants bolster the strength of health insurance marketplace plans.
Jul 23, 2025
This piece focuses on a recent study conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that used pooled data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to reveal alarming rates of psychological distress among American Indian and Alaska Native adults in California. Also picked up in Medical Xpress and Mirage News.