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Shana Alex Charles Guest
Shana Alex Charles

Cal State Fullerton

Assistant professor at Cal State Fullerton.

Shana Alex Charles is a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. As the Center's director of health insurance studies, she works with numerous projects, including the State of Health Insurance in California (SHIC) project and the California Health Benefits Review Program (CHBRP). The SHIC project acts as a statewide and national resource for health insurance information, creating and disseminating reports, fact sheets, policy briefs and on-demand data estimates. As a member of the cost analysis team with CHBRP, Charles estimates the impact of health insurance benefit mandates pending in the state's legislature. Charles is also an expert on health insurance data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).

Charles's research focuses on discontinuous health insurance, particularly among low-income children, and its impact on access to care, and underinsurance among those with coverage. She also specializes in political issues surrounding health care reform at both the state and the national levels. Her most recent work includes an examination of immigrant children excluded from the health insurance expansions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010; an evaluation of the availability of job-based coverage following the first wave of the Great Recession; and a new conceptual framework of underinsurance that includes access to care as part of the definition.

Charles received her master's degree in public policy from the UCLA School of Public Affairs and her PhD in health services from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

FROM Shana Alex Charles

California's healthcare gains threatened under Republicans' new plan
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

California's healthcare gains threatened under Republicans' new plan The American Health Care Act makes a number of changes to Obamacare, such as doling out tax credits based on age rather than income. Some rules stay the same, such as letting young people stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26. Here in California, we look at who the plan helps, and who it hurts.

8 MIN, 31 SEC Mar 13, 2017

How would universal healthcare in California work?
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

How would universal healthcare in California work? California could become the first state in the union to offer universal single-payer health care. A new bill has been introduced that begins the conversation.

8 MIN, 28 SEC Feb 23, 2017

Fate of Affordable Care Act goes into question
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Fate of Affordable Care Act goes into question President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The day after Trump’s victory, more than 100,000 people nationwide rushed to sign up for coverage under the health law. Since its passage six years ago, 1.4 million Californians have gotten their coverage through Covered California, and some say they’re worried it could be taken away or significantly changed.

16 MIN, 37 SEC Nov 11, 2016

Blue Shield Losing Non-Profit Status
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Blue Shield Losing Non-Profit Status Blue Shield, the third biggest health insurer in California, has lost its tax-exempt status, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Blue Shield could owe the state tens of millions of dollars in taxes. It has more than $4 billion in reserves, and has been criticized because its former CEO was paid nearly $5 million annually. What could that mean for consumers?

8 MIN, 18 SEC Mar 18, 2015

Obamacare and Docs
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Obamacare and Docs Regulators are reporting that two of California's biggest health care insurers have overstated the number of doctors within their networks who accept insurance obtained through the Affordable Care Act. According to the California Department of Managed Health Care, more than 25% of physicians listed by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California were either not taking patients signed up under California’s Obamacare exchange or were no longer at the location listed. What does the snafu mean for consumers?

8 MIN, 50 SEC Nov 19, 2014

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