Health care advocates and labor unions mobilize against proposed cuts, pressuring swing-district Republicans with protests, ads and town halls.
Medicaid is a lifeline for people with disabilities like Josh Lockwood-Wewer. As GOP lawmakers push for cuts, his mother is taking a stand.
California could face a cascade of troubles if federal funding for health care is slashed.
Federal funds cover more than 60% of California’s low-income health insurance plan. Losing even part of that money could result in cutbacks on care for kids or state tax hikes.
To achieve consistent pay and benefits, IHSS workers seek to negotiate directly with the state instead of with 58 individual counties.
Some key state programs will be maintained, but those without legal status remain ineligible for other anti-poverty programs.
Group cooking and exercise classes help low-income Californians treat chronic conditions.
The Legislature and governor will need to act this year if the state is to continue providing food as medicine for low-income residents.
Despite reductions to housing and antipoverty programs, Gov. Gavin Newsom maintains Medi-Cal funding.
Advocates say outreach is needed to ensure deportation fears do not stop immigrants from applying.
Thousands of low-income patients cannot survive without MLK Hospital. The South L.A. hospital cannot survive on what it is paid by public insurance.
In coverage for key areas including immunizations, mental health and well-child visits, insurers fail to deliver for those 26 and younger.
An innovative program for Medi-Cal patients demonstrates food, when prescribed, can change health outcomes. Why did the state Assembly derail it?
Can California make the most of a rare health care win?
A video portrait of California farmworkers and the struggle for health care.
An historic expansion of Medi-Cal for undocumented workers will miss many farmworkers.
In-home care is a growing necessity across the state. When will counties treat it that way?
The sweetheart deal cut with the largest managed-care organization in California may have some messy implications.
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“Self-sufficiency has been a basic principle of United States immigration law since this country’s earliest immigration statutes,” DHS tells would-be citizens. Then it lists the ways a proposed agency rule could devastate the health care of 5.5 million of them.
California’s Medically Tailored Meals pilot program could lead the medical industry, and especially insurers, to include nutrition as part of overall health care.