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But a bonus premium subsidy that went into effect last year and makes health insurance affordable for many will expire at the end of the year — and time is running out for an extension. In Pennsylvania, 40,000 people would lose all of their subsidies and another 230,000 would see their subsidies pared back, according to the HHS analysis. “It’s going to be a bad thing and a huge step backward,” Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research, said about the prospect of premium subsidy cut. “It’s going in the wrong direction, and it’s

According to the University of California, Los Angles Center for Health Policy Research Elder Index, the basic cost of living for someone over 65 (in San Diego) is $2,531 per month — about $30,000 per year for a single adult. However, that was in 2019.

Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a senior fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Center for Health Policy Research, said ensuring undocumented women have access to telehealth services and are able to obtain abortion pills at a low cost could be a solution. But he said health organizations will need to work hard to win the trust of these women, who might fear their information will land in the hands of law enforcement and be used to deport them. "We need to use trusting voices in the community to make undocumented women trust that potential of telehealth services," said Vargas Bustamante

A $3 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities will fund a Penn State-led project to determine if there are disparities in patient transfers. Other researchers on the project include ... Ninez Ponce, University of California, Los Angeles ...

State agencies collaborating with community-based organizations (CBOs) and investing in culturally competent care will improve health outcomes for Asian American (AA) and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities in California, according to a newly released policy report by AAPI Data, in partnership with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

California will become the first state to guarantee free health care to all low-income undocumented immigrants. The move will cover an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year. “Most people who go to the emergency room have insurance and are not worried about providing documents,” says Nadereh Pourat, Ph.D. director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Division of Cancer Prevention and Research. On the other hand, “the undocumented who end up in the emergency room have often

Two groups that have high rates of smoking and vaping — the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community and the LGBTQ community ­— have specific hurdles that prevent them from quitting: the cost of cessation therapies and a lack of culturally specific care, according to a pair of reports from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “Examining the smoking behaviors of specific communities is essential to understanding their unique needs,” said Sean Tan, a senior public administration analyst at the center and lead author of both reports. “We found that many NHPI and LGBTQ smokers who

The new state budget ... plans to expand Medi-Cal coverage to more undocumented Californians ages 26 to 49 no later than Jan. 1, 2024. Health advocates said about 700,000 more people will now qualify for the program – the largest group of undocumented residents in the state.

“Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Health Interview Survey has released survey data early to help show the impact of COVID-19 on Californians,” said Todd Hughes, the survey director. “As mandates, guidelines and concerns have changed over the past two years, we have added new questions to CHIS to provide policymakers, community organizations, advocates and other stakeholders with data they can act on."

California will become the first state to provide undocumented residents over age 55 with state-subsidized food assistance benefits.