The L.A. County Supervisor shares her own experience inside the state’s fractured medical system and the huge stakes in creating a better one.
Michelle Burton of the Social Change Institute talks about structural racism and its effect on generations of vulnerable communities.
The California Immigrant Policy Center’s Sarah Dar makes the case for universal health care.
Venice Family Clinic’s Elizabeth Benson Forer explains how the dramatic growth of her essential facility reflects the breakdown of our health care system.
Forty years into her career, RN Cathy Kennedy believes the poor and people of color will never get fair treatment until we make systemic change.
In a special podcast series, Mark Kreidler talks to experts and advocates about the economic and racial determinants of health in the Golden State.
California’s rural healthcare services face a viral outbreak fueled by falsehoods.
While bleak, the results of the California Health Interview Survey can help determine which residents are most in need of help.
For Kaiser member Victor Gomez, getting help meant going out of network.
Immigrant rights advocate Cynthia Buiza explains Gov. Newsom’s historic plan to help immigrants receive health care.
A new survey of 150,000 Americans finds private health care consistently ranks lower than public options.
A new California bill will make it easier to take life-saving treatment to the people who need it most.
Experts describe the winter surge as a “perfect storm” driven in part by poor planning, staffing woes and a tardy governmental response.
How could only 29% of Black Californians be willing to take a vaccine that might save them?
Here are five ways the president-elect will seek to break with the policies of the past four years.
Mark Kreidler speaks with Dr. Coley King, director of homeless health care at Venice Family Clinic.
Trump claims to have cut prescription drug prices, but the proof is at the pharmacy counter.
Trump’s legal assault on Obamacare could mobilize large numbers of Latino voters against him in Florida and Texas.
The president and members of Congress are spared the search for affordable health care.
What is the president’s obligation to those sickened or killed by a virus he could have done far more to tame?