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Shaping the Future of Health Equity – ITUP Impact Report 2024
January 8, 2025
Explore the key milestones, impactful collaborations, and the measurable progress we’ve made in addressing health disparities.
Read MoreSnapshot: Remaining Uninsured in California (Revised and Updated, April 2018)
January 10, 2018
Prior to the ACA, the uninsured rate for nonelderly Californians persisted around 20 percent. Although California’s implementation of the ACA dramatically reduced the number of uninsured, nearly three million uninsured Californians remain. This snapshot provides a quick profile of California’s remaining uninsured.
Read MoreHealth Care Reform: 2017 Year-In-Review
January 7, 2018
Because California embraced the opportunities available under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 2017 began and ended with California reaching historic low rates of uninsured. The timeline below reviews notable health reform events for 2017 and includes links to source documents and related ITUP publications.
Read MoreFramework for Designing a Health Coverage Proposal
August 27, 2017
On August 25, 2017, Speaker of the California Assembly, Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), announced the formation of the new Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage.
Read MoreSenate BCRA Incorporating the Graham-Cassidy-Heller Amendment
August 20, 2017
Near the end of July 2017, as the U.S. Senate began voting on various Republican‐sponsored initiatives to rollback the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Senators Graham (R‐South Carolina) and Cassidy (R‐Louisiana) offered an amendment to the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), which Senator Heller (R‐Nevada) later co-sponsored.
Read MoreFact Sheet, July 2017 – Summary of the Better Care Reconciliation Act
July 25, 2017
On July 13, 2017 Senate Republican leaders released a revised discussion draft of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). The changes made in this version of the Senate proposal do not substantively change the basic features of the original BCRA proposal. The discussion draft leaves in place the dramatic restructuring of the federal Medicaid program. […]
Read MoreFact Sheet, June 2017 – Year-by-Year Impacts of the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act
June 27, 2017
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) of 2017 strips insurance coverage from 22 million Americans by 2026, a similar result as the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA). This ITUP Fact Sheet shows the year-by-year policy changes that eventually lead to dramatic waive of uninsured Americans. Download […]
Read MoreMeeting the Health Needs of the Immigrant Community In Uncertain Times
June 14, 2017
This fact sheet provides information on California’s immigrant community, the barriers they face to access health care, and California policies promoting access and/or coverage for all residents, regardless of immigration status.
Read MoreSummary of President Trump’s Proposed Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Plan
May 24, 2017
On May 23, 2017, the Trump Administration released its proposed federal fiscal year (FFY) 2018 budget plan which relies on draconian cuts to the safety-net to increase spending for the military, border security, tax reform and infrastructure.
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