Before Health Reform Expansion, Public Programs Already Covered One in Five

​This fact sheet uses data from the 2012 California Health Interview Survey to examine health insurance coverage among Californians. The authors find that nearly 20 percent of Californians were insured all year through Medi-Cal or Healthy Families in 2012 and just under half of all nonelderly  Californians were insured through their own or a family member's job-based coverage.