healthcare
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Kaiser Health News: Crowd at Capitol demands immigrant healthcare coverage
Activists gathered to push for legislation that would extend full Medicaid coverage to adults in the country illegally.
March 23, 2019
Kaiser Health News: Newsom diverges sharply from Washington with health care budget
Newsom unveiled his first state budget, one that leads California down a very different health care path than the one Washington has forged.
January 17, 2019
CALmatters: Newsom and Trump both want prescription drug price reform — but will it work?
In one of his first official actions, Newsom directed state agencies to negotiate as a block in order to demand prescription drug makers lower their prices.
January 10, 2019
CALmatters: California joins other states in defending Affordable Care Act after court ruling
California is once again defending the Affordable Care Act, leading a coalition of states against a small army of GOP lawmakers seeking to undo the signature healthcare law.
January 4, 2019
This could be the Utopian States of America, Inc.
Continuing on the theme of my last few columns, I think that income inequality is one of the…
December 23, 2017
WHA/UCD divorce leaves the children in utter dismay
Western Health Advantage and UC Davis Medical Center part ways and leave patients to twist in the wind.
November 8, 2017
Physicians used to help provide care for those in need
"Looking back on my own practice starting in 1965, in Yolo County there was no rift in the social net for healthcare like there is today. At that time, all of the bigger counties had county hospitals and all of the physicians were happy to provide inexpensive or free medical care."
October 25, 2017
Medical, insurance industries, Congress colluding in extortion
OK. Healthcare. Our ongoing healthcare discussion seems to revolve exclusively around insurance coverage — who gets it, who…
July 19, 2017