{"id":6035,"date":"2017-04-28T01:09:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T08:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/fewer-people-uninsured-in-los-angeles-since-obamacare-but-disparities-remain\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:25:16","slug":"fewer-people-uninsured-in-los-angeles-since-obamacare-but-disparities-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/fewer-people-uninsured-in-los-angeles-since-obamacare-but-disparities-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer people uninsured in Los Angeles since Obamacare, but disparities remain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Fewer people uninsured in Los Angeles since Obamacare, but disparities remain<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Photo:\u00a0A representative from L.A. Care Health Plan, a public agency that provides health coverage to low-income Los Angeles County residents, speaks to USC students and alumni Mar. 24 at a career fair hosted by the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The percentage of adults and children without health insurance declined dramatically in Los Angeles between 2011 and 2015, according to a new\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0from the LA County Department of Public Health, compiled with assistance from USC.<\/p>\n

The sharp decline\u2014from 28.5 to 11.7 percent\u2014spanned racial, ethnic, age, gender and geographic groups of adults 18 to 64 years old throughout the county.\u00a0 The news was even better for children: The percentage of uninsured dropped to 3.4 in 2015\u2014a clear improvement from 10.1 percent in 2002.<\/p>\n

Good news\u2014for now<\/strong><\/p>\n

The county findings are consistent with trends reported in California and nationally. The report notes private insurance coverage declined between 2007 and 2011, and attributes the lack of further decline between 2011 and 2015 to the expansion of Covered California\u2014the state\u2019s health care marketplace\u2014and the improving economy.<\/p>\n

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\u2014also known as Obamacare\u2014was signed into law in 2010, and fully took hold in 2014. In addition to providing more private insurance options, the bill expanded Medicaid, the nation\u2019s free low-income health program, to cover millions more Californians than were previously eligible. Today, those individuals may lose parts of their coverage, or get dumped from their insurers, should the ACA get repealed or replaced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis report shows that we should be working to extend the benefits of the ACA, not to repeal it,\u201d said Mitchell Katz, director of Los Angeles County Health Agency, in a\u00a0press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Cousineau, USC professor of clinical preventive medicine and a contributor to the report, agreed. \u201cIt\u2019s not perfect, but the ACA has gotten us closer to a more equitable health care system,\u201d he said. \u201cResearch shows that, even in Los Angeles, more people are receiving life-saving medical treatment, hospitals are facing lower uncompensated care costs and health care spending projections continue to fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statistics spell good news for LA County, according to Barbara Ferrer, director of the LA County Department of Public Health. \u201cWe know that having health insurance coverage is an essential step in ensuring people get the medical care they need, including access to preventive services,\u201d she said in a press release.<\/p>\n

Unequal Improvement<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the positive news means more LA residents have access to affordable health care, glaring disparities persist among the uninsured.<\/p>\n

Among Latinos, the percent of uninsured adults was nearly three times higher than African American, Asian or white uninsured adults.<\/p>\n

In addition, the uninsured adults percentage in the \u201cSouth Service Area,\u201d which includes Athens, Compton, Crenshaw, Florence, Hyde Park, Lynwood, Paramount and Watts, was more than triple that in the \u201cWest Service Area\u201d of Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Culver City, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Playa del Rey, Santa Monica and Venice.<\/p>\n

Numerous USC public health programs in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences are working to eliminate \u00a0health disparities at the local, state, national and global levels, including the\u00a0USC Institute for Global Health<\/a>,\u00a0USC\u00a0Environmental Health Centers<\/a>,\u00a0Immigrant Health Initiative<\/a>,\u00a0Centers for Health Equity in the Americas<\/a>,\u00a0Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Program on Global Health & Human Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the classroom, Cousineau is teaching his\u00a0Master of Public Health<\/a>\u00a0students about the ACA debate\u2014and even\u00a0took 18 to Sacramento\u00a0in February to meet with legislators and attend a health reform conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order for us to continue our work to minimize health disparities and inequity, policymakers need to protect the gains we\u2019ve already made,\u201d Cousineau said.<\/p>\n

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