Up To 800,000 More Californians Are Likely To Be Without Health Coverage In 2023, Report Projects
The anticipated rise is largely because the health law's individual mandate requirement to buy health insurance is being phased out in 2019. The report recommended officials enact policies to stave off the increase, including passing a state-level mandate and offering state-funded financial assistance to low-income consumers to help pay for premiums.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Many More Californians Likely To Be Without Health Insurance In Next 5 Years
Up to 800,000 more Californians are likely to be without health coverage in 2023, researchers estimate — reversing a years-long trend of falling uninsured rates in the state following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The number of uninsured Californians is projected to increase to 4.4 million in 2023 unless state officials enact policies to expand coverage, according to a report released Tuesday by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. (Ho, 11/27)
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Los Angeles Times:
In California's Inland Empire, Fewer Than Half Of Jobs Pay A Living Wage
More than 85,000 new jobs — a quarter of payroll expansion from 2010 to 2017 — are in healthcare. The surge is driven by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which brought medical insurance to tens of thousands of Inland Empire residents, many of whom work for companies that don’t provide it. (Roosevelt, 11/28)