A new fact sheet published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research finds that 93 percent of Californians under 65 would have access to health coverage if Congress passes a national health reform bill.  Four million state residents would be eligible for Medi-Cal or would qualify for subsidies to purchase private insurance.

From the document:

If leading proposals in Congress for national health care reform are enacted, most of California’s 6.4 million nonelderly adults and children who were uninsured for all or part of the year in 2007 would directly benefit. The three major proposals in both the House and Senate all would make two key changes: 1) they will expand Medicaid eligibility to include qualified uninsured adults and children with household incomes up to 133% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL); and 2) they will provide public subsidies to enable qualified uninsured adults and children with household incomes from 134 – 400% FPL to purchase insurance. An estimated four million Californians would be newly eligible either for public health insurance (in Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program) or for public subsidies to purchase private coverage.

Fact sheet: National Health Care Reform Will Help Four Million Uninsured Adults and Children in California (PDF | 155.07 KB)

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. (2009). National health care reform will help four million uninsured adults and children in California. Lavarreda, S. and Brown, E.R.