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Larry Valenzuela CalMatters En un caluroso día de verano, decenas de jornaleros hicieron una pausa en su trabajo de recolección de chiles en un campo remoto a 42 kilómetros de Fresno y acudieron a una clínica médica temporal. Era una oportunidad para recoger medicamentos y hacerse evaluaciones básicas de...
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Larry Valenzuela CalMatters On a scorching summer day, dozens of farm laborers paused their work picking banana peppers in a remote field 26 miles from Fresno and filed into a pop-up medical clinic. It was a chance to pick up medication and take basic health assessments, such as blood...
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Colorado es el primer estado del país en hacer más transparentes los precios de la atención sanitaria y los medicamentos, en un esfuerzo por aumentar la competencia y abaratar los costes. Las normas federales aprobadas durante la primera administración Trump que exigen a las compañías de seguros de salud...
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Colorado is the first state in the nation to make health care and drug prices more transparent in an effort to increase competition and bring down costs. Federal rules passed during the first Trump administration requiring health insurance companies to post negotiated prices took effect in 2022. Kristin Paulson,...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday October 12 allowing a broad range of relatives to step in as children’s caregivers if their parents are deported, a measure that had provoked a firestorm of conservative criticism. Assembly Bill 495 will also bar daycare providers from collecting...
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Each year, 500 to 1,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare lung disease that can be fatal if left untreated. To encourage earlier diagnosis of PAH, the American Lung Association, with support from Johnson & Johnson, is sharing information about the...
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It’s back to school time and there is so much for families to do to get ready for the school year ahead, from getting school supplies to signing up for after school programs. Making sure kids have health care needs covered should be a part of those preparations. Free...
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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Less than a year after “Dreamers” were first allowed to sign up for Covered California health insurance, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are about to lose their health care coverage. In California, that means about 2,300 Dreamers must find health insurance elsewhere...
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The cuts coming to Medicaid, known here as Medi-Cal, will make health care more expensive and harder to access for millions of low-income Californians, according to a new report from Georgetown University. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the cuts of about $1 trillion will cause at least 15 million...
Larry Valenzuela CalMatters En un caluroso día de verano, decenas de jornaleros hicieron una pausa en su trabajo de recolección de chiles en un campo remoto a 42 kilómetros de Fresno y acudieron a una clínica médica temporal. Era una oportunidad para recoger medicamentos y hacerse evaluaciones básicas de...
Larry Valenzuela CalMatters On a scorching summer day, dozens of farm laborers paused their work picking banana peppers in a remote field 26 miles from Fresno and filed into a pop-up medical clinic. It was a chance to pick up medication and take basic health assessments, such as blood...
Colorado es el primer estado del país en hacer más transparentes los precios de la atención sanitaria y los medicamentos, en un esfuerzo por aumentar la competencia y abaratar los costes. Las normas federales aprobadas durante la primera administración Trump que exigen a las compañías de seguros de salud...
Colorado is the first state in the nation to make health care and drug prices more transparent in an effort to increase competition and bring down costs. Federal rules passed during the first Trump administration requiring health insurance companies to post negotiated prices took effect in 2022. Kristin Paulson,...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday October 12 allowing a broad range of relatives to step in as children’s caregivers if their parents are deported, a measure that had provoked a firestorm of conservative criticism. Assembly Bill 495 will also bar daycare providers from collecting...
Each year, 500 to 1,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare lung disease that can be fatal if left untreated. To encourage earlier diagnosis of PAH, the American Lung Association, with support from Johnson & Johnson, is sharing information about the...
It’s back to school time and there is so much for families to do to get ready for the school year ahead, from getting school supplies to signing up for after school programs. Making sure kids have health care needs covered should be a part of those preparations. Free...
Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Less than a year after “Dreamers” were first allowed to sign up for Covered California health insurance, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are about to lose their health care coverage. In California, that means about 2,300 Dreamers must find health insurance elsewhere...
The cuts coming to Medicaid, known here as Medi-Cal, will make health care more expensive and harder to access for millions of low-income Californians, according to a new report from Georgetown University. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the cuts of about $1 trillion will cause at least 15 million...