In a UC Berkeley Labor Center 2024 report on Medi-Cal Enrollment and Spending by District and County shows enrollment at 44% in the 42nd Congressional District and 46% in the 44th in Long Beach. In the Inland Empire, about 42% of Riverside County residents and 45% of San Bernardino County residents were enrolled in Medi-Cal.
The UC Berkeley Labor Center estimates that close to one million undocumented Californians will have gained access to Medi-Cal through this expansion.
California has about 2.5 million uninsured residents under age 65, or about 8% of the state’s population, according to estimates from UC Berkeley Labor Center.
Immigrants who are not in the country lawfully can buy private health insurance, but they can’t get the lower rates available through state health insurance exchanges. Some California legislators are considering opening the state health exchange to undocumented residents.
A study from the UC Berkeley Labor Center shows that there are 520,000 uninsured Californians — the population that Community Health Ruedaflores says the Community Health Care Program was created for.
Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, has expanded coverage in recent years, notably to residents living in the county without legal permission. By 2024, approximately 92% of Californians under age 65 will be insured, the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center projected.
According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, nearly 3.2 million Californians remain uninsured in 2022, or about 9.5% of the population aged 0-64.
Undocumented individuals are projected to remain California’s largest uninsured group in 2022, according to the UC Berkeley Labor Center. The ACA neglected them, with long-term consequences.
UC Berkeley’s Labor Center estimates some 3.2 million Californians will remain uninsured in 2022. Is this a failure of all that marketing?
Like other states, California is trying to resolve its costly problem of uninsured residents, according to public health experts. A study released last year by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that 3.2 million Californians, 9.5% of the state’s population, likely would remain uninsured in 2022.
