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.
Co-published by American Prospect
“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.
Co-published by International Business Times
State leaders are realizing that California must play both defense and offense to preserve and expand its health-care gains, and to protect vulnerable groups – particularly the state’s huge immigrant population.