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These barriers include a lack of timely access to needed care, not having a usual source of care, having trouble finding providers and experiencing unfair treatment, according to researchers from UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research and Williams Institute who conducted the study.

Using data from the health policy center’s California Health Interview Survey from 2015 to 2020, the researchers tracked health care access and insurance coverage by sexual orientation and gender identity. They found that bisexual men and women were the most likely of all groups to report not having a usual

The first California Health Interview Survey data about caregivers available in more than a decade indicates that a sizable proportion of family and friend caregivers in California are struggling financially, experiencing physical or mental health problems, and receiving little if any financial support for their caregiving responsibilities.

A recent UCLA health policy research brief found that 94 percent of Californians have some form of health coverage as of 2021.

Findings from the 2020 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) suggest that among Asian adults, unfair treatment due to race or ethnicity played a bigger role in food insecurity than for the overall California population.

Among Asians, those reporting unfair treatment because of race or ethnicity experienced food insecurity at 1.5 times the rate than those not treated unfairly, according to CHIS, which is conducted by UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research and is the country’s largest statewide health survey. The CHIS is done online or by phone in several Asian languages: Chinese

As of 2021, 94 percent of Californians had health insurance, according to a report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

A commentary written by Cathy Kennedy, president of the California Nurses Association, cites a UCLA CHPR policy brief, which found that more Black and Latino Californians self-rationed needed care due to cost or insurance barriers than for white Californians.

In 2016, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that about half of California adults either had prediabetes or were undiagnosed diabetics. Two years later, California reported a higher number of new diabetes cases than any other U.S. state, according to state data.

In 2020, one in seven Californians skipped, delayed, or cut back on care, 60 percent of them due to cost, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found last September.