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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.