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Los Angeles Daily News

Wildfires, heat, food insecurity, lack of medical care affect Californians’ health: UCLA survey

This story features a range of newly released 2025 data from the California Health Interview Survey that was presented during the annual data release webinar. It appeared in all of the Southern California Newspaper Group newspapers (which include the Orange County Register and Riverside Press Enterprise) as well as Pasadena Now and MyNewsLA.
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Dollars and Sense

Tax billionaires, save lives: California’s Proposition 40 is met with a heap of meritless objections

Data from a report by the California Simulation of Insurance Markets about how many Californians under age 65 are projected to lose health insurance by 2030 was cited in this column about the one-time billionaire's tax on the ballot in California.
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Spectrum News 1: "In Focus SoCal"

Navigating changes to Medi-Cal; Making Long Beach more accessible

This story cites a statistic about how the number of Californians without insurance may potentially double to almost 15% by 2030, according to a report by the California Simulation of the Insurance Markets (CalSIM) a project of the the UC Berkeley Labor Center and UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
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KFF Health News

Sep 08, 2026

‘It’s triage’: California’s next governor will face destabilizing surge in uninsured

Data about how many more Californians could become uninsured by 2030 from a report by the California Simulation of Insurance Markets, a joint project of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Labor Center, is cited in this story.
Features: California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM)

Golden State

Aug 28, 2026

Prop. 44 purports to improve healthcare. It could actually make it worse

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Director Ninez Ponce offered expert commentary in this story about the importance of community health clinics having "some measure of freedom to spend revenue on care for their high-needs populations."
Features: Ninez A. Ponce

Capital & Main

Aug 20, 2026

Children are losing health coverage. Federal cuts will make it worse.

This State of Inequality Column cites data from a 2026 California Simulation of Insurance Markets report that estimated how many more Californians could become uninsured by 2030.
Features: California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM)

Boston Globe

Aug 19, 2026

As health care costs rise, Markey and Moulton pitch similar euphemisms with far different implications (paywall)

Mark Peterson, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and professor of public policy, provided expert commentary on voters' attitudes toward the the U.S. health care system, and how political candidates campaign to reform the system.
Features: Mark Peterson

Times-Standard (Humboldt)

Aug 17, 2026

Building on Redwood Region RISE: The next chapter for regional healthcare (paywall)

This column cites a data from the California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM) that showed how many people could lose full-scope Medi-Cal coverage in Humboldt County on California's North Coast, as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. CalSIM is a joint project of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Labor Center.
Features: California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM)

Daily Bruin

Aug 14, 2026

2 students honored with Don T. Nakanishi Award for AAPI community research, activism

Corina Penaia, a health policy and management doctoral student, and researcher with the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was the graduate student recipient.
Features: Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab

Our Weekly

Aug 12, 2026

Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital receives new grant

Data from the California Health Interview Survey about preventable hospitalizations was cited in this story that highlights the need for more stable funding for a hospital in South Los Angeles.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

CalMatters

Aug 07, 2026

Medicaid cuts stand to hit everyone (yes, even you). Here’s why

Nadereh Pourat, an associate center director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided expert commentary on how cuts to Medi-Cal could affect the financial outlook for California hospitals.
Features: Nadereh Pourat, California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM)

SmartBrief

Aug 05, 2026

Experts: Immigration enforcement affects public health, access to care

Maria-Elena Young, a faculty affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided expertise in this article about immigration enforcement harms immigrants' health and affects their access to and utilization of healthcare.
Features: Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young

The Marijuana Herald

Aug 05, 2026

Study: California adult marijuana use remained largely stable after retail sales began, while edible use rose

Data from the California Health Interview Survey was cited in this story about a study that showed adult marijuana use in California remained largely stable following the legalization of licensed recreational sales. The study by UC San Diego researchers was also written about in the German publication Hanf Magazin.
Features: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)