Health Insurance Forum

California lacked health insurance plans during year 2009

by mahir on 24/08/10 at 9:33 am

Drops in revenue and job-based health treatment left 24 % of Californians uninsured last year, according to approximation by UCLA researchers. The no. of uninsured residents younger than age 65 was even higher in 37 counties.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research estimated how much non-elderly Californians were uninsured for division or all of previous year. It also estimated rates of health insurance in California coverage through employers or public programs for all of year 2009. The information are based on unemployment rates and California Health Interview Survey in 2007.
The study, released yesterday, found the highest rates of uninsured residents in Southern California, the San Joaquin Valley and the Northern/Sierra region.
Los Angeles County had the uppermost number of residents with no insurance, at 2.7 million people, or 28.9 percent of the population. It also had a comparatively low rate of job-based coverage, at 43.3 percent. Overall, half of California established health insurance through their employers.
In four counties such as Shasta, Merced, Madera and Imperial – more than 30 percent of residents lacked insurance. As Compared to the rest of the state, residents in these areas were less likely to have employer-based coverage and more likely to be enrolled in public programs such as Medi-Cal or Healthy Families.
Residents in the Bay Area and Central Coast, on the other hand, had the lowest rates of being uninsured and the highest rates of employer coverage. Overall, Americans account that they’ve had difficulty paying for health insurance or services in the past three months, according to investigation results released yesterday by Thomas Reuters.