2025

U.S. News & World Report | "Protect your health and finances: do you need health insurance?"


U.S. News & World Report interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Naomi Zewde about the importance of health insurance.

U.S. News & World Report interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Naomi Zewde, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the importance of health insurance.

Dr. Naomi Zewde, assistant professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by U.S. News & World Report about the importance of health insurance.

"Unlike, say, bananas, you have no idea how much health care you might need this coming year,” says Naomi Zewde, assistant professor in the department of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. “Medical spending has an uncertain element to it, and that uncertainty can get pretty expensive.”

Read the U.S. News & World Report article.