California’s Uninsured in 2024: Medi-Cal expands to all low-income adults, but half a million undocumented Californians lack affordable coverage options

We thank Covered California for their support of the development and maintenance of the CalSIM model, and The California Endowment for their support of research on expanding coverage in Medi-Cal regardless of immigration status. [...] 10 We project an additional 60,000 undocumented and uninsured Californians accounted for in other categories: 30,000 undocumented Californians in the group of uninsured eligible for Medi-Cal and another 30,000 in the group of uninsured eligible for affordable employer coverage. [...] UCLA Center for Health UCLA Center for Health Policy Research University of California, Los Angeles Policy Research 10960 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1550 Los Angeles, CA 90024 The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research is one of the (310) 794-0909 nation’s leading health policy research centers and the healthpolicy.ucla.edu premier source of health policy information for California. [...] The Center is the home of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and is part of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. [...] The analyses, interpretations, conclusions, and views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the Regents of the University of California, or collaborating organizations or funders.