2025

CalMatters | "2,300 California ‘Dreamers’ are about to lose their health care coverage"

CalMatters interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante on the potential impact of federal decisions on health insurance funding.

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August 4, 2025

CalMatters interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante on the potential impact of federal decisions on health insurance funding, including the reality that when fewer young people enroll in coverage, premiums tend to go up for everyone.

“Then sick people who really need to get coverage pay the price," Vargas Bustamante said.

Read the CalMatters article, which also ran in the Orange County Register.

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