Hanging on to coverage?: millions of Californians have lost jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic : did they also lose insurance?
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (California HealthCare Foundation)
- Author(s):
- Wilson, Katherine, author Lucia, Laurel, author
- Contributor(s):
- California HealthCare Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Oakland, California] : California Health Care Foundation, October 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Benefit Plans, Employee -- statistics & numerical data Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data Unemployment California United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Millions of Californians lost jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. But early information from California's insurance regulators suggests that--at least through June--the number of Californians with job-based health insurance has not changed as dramatically as feared. This may partially help explain why the state's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, has not yet experienced a big surge in enrollment. Specifically, employment levels in June were 13.9% below pre-pandemic levels, with 2.6 million Californians having lost their jobs. But, contrary to worst-case scenarios, our analysis showed that enrollment in employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) was down only 1.0%, about 190,000 enrollees, as of June 30. Many projections earlier this year suggested we might see close to two to three million Californians losing employer-sponsored insurance by this time.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (5 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101775816 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101775816