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    The Health Insurance Policy Program was a five-year, $1.7 million grant from The California Wellness Foundation, designed to inform and promote policy development that increases access to comprehensive, affordable, high-quality health insurance  that promotes the health of all Californians. The HIPP produced an annual report The State of Health Insurance in California for the state legislature providing comprehensive information on the uninsured, HMOs and health insurance, employer-sponsored health benefits and health insurance purchasing groups in California. UC Berkeley HIPP grant ended July 31, 2000.


    The Health Insurance Policy Program was a joint effort of the Center for Health and Public Policy Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, under the direction of Helen H. Schauffler, Ph.D., and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, under the direction of E. Richard Brown, Ph.D. The work was funded by a generous grant from The California Wellness Foundation as part of the Work and Health Initiative.

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