The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - As Figure  5 shows, however, as measured by the consumer price index, prescription drug cost inflation has slowed over the past 50 years. While drug inflation has tended to exceed overall inflation, this trend reversed in the last few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2022-23 Budget: Health Care Access and Affordability

Feb 23, 2022 - Option 5 Households with incomes above 150 percent up to 250 percent of the FPL would be upgrade to more generous plans. $278 million to $322 million All deductibles would be eliminated. Option 6 No change for households at or below 200 percent of the FPL.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4560

The 2019-20 Budget: The Governor's Individual Health Insurance Market Affordability Proposals

Feb 7, 2019 - As noted previously and shown in Figure  5, some of those projected to discontinue coverage because of the end of the federal individual mandate penalty would have otherwise been enrolled in Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3927

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Health and Human Services

Oct 17, 2019 - Seniors and persons with disabilities subject to this threshold may still receive Medi-Cal coverage if their income exceeds the threshold, but generally must pay a share of their medical costs out of pocket first.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4104

The 2023-24 Budget: Assessment of Covered California Budget Solution

Feb 13, 2023 - Aside from premium subsidies, the program could provide other forms of financial assistance, such as reducing deductibles or other out-of-pocket expenses consumers might incur when receiving health care services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4681

The Uncertain Affordable Care Act Landscape: What It Means for California

Feb 17, 2017 - Over $5  billion in federal funding for health insurance premium tax credits and cost ‑sharing reductions available through Covered California. Several billion dollars in additional federal taxes that California residents pay under the ACA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3569

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape

Oct 24, 2025 - In large part, this is because Medi ‑Cal providers could not refuse services to patients who did not pay their required out of pocket share. The state eliminated required copays a few years ago to simplify service delivery.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - For example, we estimated that a more proportionate tax netting around $7 billion in revenue could cost around $30 per member, per month—about a 5 percent increase on average to commercial health plan premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

A Long-Term Outlook: Disability Among California’s Seniors

Nov 28, 2016 - Paying for LTSS Payers of LTSS include the state and federal governments, private insurers, and individuals who pay out –of –pocket for their own LTSS. Within the state and federal governments, Medi –Cal and Medicare are the two main payers of LTSS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3509

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - As Figure  2 shows, DDS caseload has increased notably over the last ten years, with an average annual growth rate of about 5  percent in total caseload from 2015 through 2025. This is faster than the population growth in the state over this period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157