Affordable health care is essential for everyone to be healthy and thrive. Having health insurance coverage helps lower out-of-pocket expenses and ensures access to preventive care, which in turn supports workforce participation and education. Using 2023 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data, the California Budget & Policy Center produced fact sheets covering these five topics:
- Medi-Cal Covers Over a Third of the State’s Population
- California’s Uninsured Rate Reached a Historic Low in 2023
- American Indian or Alaska Native Californians Have the Highest Uninsured Rate
- Too Many Californians Lost Medi-Cal Coverage Due to Paperwork Challenges
- Many Californians Could Lose Health Coverage if Premium Tax Credits Expire
While California has made substantial progress, challenges remain in ensuring health coverage for everyone. By addressing gaps in coverage, particularly for historically underserved communities, state leaders can continue leading the nation in advancing health equity and improving well-being for all Californians.
Affordable health care is essential for everyone to be healthy and thrive. Having health insurance coverage helps lower out-of-pocket expenses and ensures access to preventive care, which in turn supports workforce participation and education. Using 2023 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data, the California Budget & Policy Center produced fact sheets covering these five topics:
- Medi-Cal Covers Over a Third of the State’s Population
- California’s Uninsured Rate Reached a Historic Low in 2023
- American Indian or Alaska Native Californians Have the Highest Uninsured Rate
- Too Many Californians Lost Medi-Cal Coverage Due to Paperwork Challenges
- Many Californians Could Lose Health Coverage if Premium Tax Credits Expire
While California has made substantial progress, challenges remain in ensuring health coverage for everyone. By addressing gaps in coverage, particularly for historically underserved communities, state leaders can continue leading the nation in advancing health equity and improving well-being for all Californians.
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Indigenous (AI/AN/In) communities have been greatly undercounted, uncounted, and miscounted/miscategorized in data collection efforts across state, county, and federal agencies — including in the census — presenting stark challenges to accurately highlighting inequities impacting AI/AN/In children. Data collection tools at the state and federal level are not created by or adapted to AI/AN/In culture and communities and lack questions that are relevant to or understanding of them, leading to data that drastically underestimates, overlooks, or miscategorizes their experiences and challenges. There is a critical need for accurate, meaningful, culturally relevant and responsive, and timely data collection in AI/AN/In communities to shed light on and address hidden health inequities.
The publication’s infographic provides an overview of key child health facts to inform the work to be done to make California the best state to raise healthy, thriving children. All data is specific to California unless noted explicitly as national data.
This study uses 2019, 2020 and 2021 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data.
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Indigenous (AI/AN/In) communities have been greatly undercounted, uncounted, and miscounted/miscategorized in data collection efforts across state, county, and federal agencies — including in the census — presenting stark challenges to accurately highlighting inequities impacting AI/AN/In children. Data collection tools at the state and federal level are not created by or adapted to AI/AN/In culture and communities and lack questions that are relevant to or understanding of them, leading to data that drastically underestimates, overlooks, or miscategorizes their experiences and challenges. There is a critical need for accurate, meaningful, culturally relevant and responsive, and timely data collection in AI/AN/In communities to shed light on and address hidden health inequities.
The publication’s infographic provides an overview of key child health facts to inform the work to be done to make California the best state to raise healthy, thriving children. All data is specific to California unless noted explicitly as national data.
This study uses 2019, 2020 and 2021 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data.
Authors update all RACE COUNTS data possible each year to provide the community with the most recent racial equity data. When an important new indicator is published, we also add it to our data. This year’s updates included three meaningful improvements:
Authors update all RACE COUNTS data possible each year to provide the community with the most recent racial equity data. When an important new indicator is published, we also add it to our data. This year’s updates included three meaningful improvements:
Latine children and families represent a diverse population that includes an array of ethnic and racial identities. Granular data that is disaggregated by Latine subgroups, including Indigenous Mesoamerican populations as well as Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, South American, and Puerto Rican ancestry (the five largest Latine ancestry groups in CA), can help illuminate hidden inequities and paint a more accurate picture of the well-being of Latine children in CA.
This fact sheet primarily presents data on Latine children as a whole because of the lack of publicly available, granular-level ethnic and racial data.
The publication’s infographic provides an overview of key child health facts to inform the work to be done to make California the best state to raise healthy, thriving children. All data is specific to Latine children in California unless noted explicitly as national data. Authors use the term “Latine” to be inclusive of diverse language, culture and gender identities.
Latine children and families represent a diverse population that includes an array of ethnic and racial identities. Granular data that is disaggregated by Latine subgroups, including Indigenous Mesoamerican populations as well as Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, South American, and Puerto Rican ancestry (the five largest Latine ancestry groups in CA), can help illuminate hidden inequities and paint a more accurate picture of the well-being of Latine children in CA.
This fact sheet primarily presents data on Latine children as a whole because of the lack of publicly available, granular-level ethnic and racial data.
The publication’s infographic provides an overview of key child health facts to inform the work to be done to make California the best state to raise healthy, thriving children. All data is specific to Latine children in California unless noted explicitly as national data. Authors use the term “Latine” to be inclusive of diverse language, culture and gender identities.