Center in the News
Nov 22, 2024
Lookout Santa Cruz
In 2022 in Santa Cruz County, 21.4% of people reported in a California Health Interview Survey that they had delayed medical care or didn’t receive the care they needed, compared to the statewide average of 16.5%.
Nov 21, 2024
MDLinx
Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered his ideas about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s qualifications for the position of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Serivces.
Gerald F. Kominski
Nov 20, 2024
KQED
Citing the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Jessica Altman, executive director of Covered California, highlighted that roughly 1.3 million Californians are uninsured despite being eligible for low-cost coverage through Covered California or free insurance through Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Nov 20, 2024
Sierra Sun Times
Data from the California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM) and the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) were used by Covered California to demonstrate the need for getting reliable information to Californians who need health insurance.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM)
Nov 15, 2024
LAist
According to a study published last year by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the percentage of immigrant adults in California with “serious psychological distress” increased by 50% between 2015 and 2021. The study defines serious psychological distress as severe, diagnosable mental health conditions, like depression and anxiety.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Nov 13, 2024
Fortune
Trump is praising RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again’ plan. Scientists are worried
In order to stop the fluoridation of water from a federal standpoint, “Congress would have to pass a law outlawing the use of fluoridation or perhaps the EPA would have to put fluoridation of water on a dangerous chemical list,” says Gerald Kominski, Ph.D., senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. But Kominski says that Kennedy may have influence “through public persuasion and the authority of whatever position he might have to encourage municipalities to go ahead and stop using fluoride.”
Gerald F. Kominski
Nov 08, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and Mark Peterson, also a senior fellow at UCLA CHPR, were quoted in the L.A. Times about how things related to health care might change under the second Trump administration.
Gerald F. Kominski,
Mark Peterson
Nov 04, 2024
Daily Bruin
Mark Peterson, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, said many voters are worried about the high cost of health care, which has partially resulted from the 2022 inflation spike. “It’s not deciding whether or not you’re going to see a movie, or going to buy that particularly nice meal in the restaurant,” he said. “You may really need something.”
Mark Peterson
Nov 01, 2024
KEYT-TV and KKFX-CD (Santa Barbara and Santa Maria)
In a story about the open enrollment period for Covered California, TV news cited CalSIM, a model created by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, to show how many Californians qualify for subsidies through Covered California (591,000) or are eligible for Medi-Cal coverage (675,000).
California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM)
Nov 01, 2024
KFF Health News
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that 21% of California dentists saw Medi-Cal patients of all ages, according to data from 2019 to 2021. Often those dentists limit the number of Medi-Cal patients they will see; only 15% of adult enrollees might get dental care in a given year.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)