Medi-Cal

A white ambulance truck is parked in front of a light brown building with a sign that reads "Plumas Hospital District."

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She drove a hundred miles to give birth. New California laws are bringing maternity care closer to home

Three years after closing its maternity ward, a new state law will help a rural Northern California hospital bring birth services back to the community.

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크리스틴 황

• 11월 12, 2025

Two people wearing hospital scrubs sit and look at a computer screen inside a hospital room. Other medical equipment can be seen nearby.

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Adam Schiff and Doug LaMalfa want to reopen this county’s only hospital. But it won’t be easy

Glenn Medical Center has been in the same location for decades, but a narrow interpretation of a federal rule shut it down. Now thousands of people have to leave the county for emergency care.

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아나 B. 이바라

• 10월 29, 2025

A Planned Parenthood letter sign is outside a beige concrete building with bushes underneath and the sun shining on the building.

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California gives Planned Parenthood $140 million boost to keep clinics open

An injection of public funding means the nonprofit organization can keep reproductive health clinics operating. But with more financial troubles looming, lawmakers say there’s more work to be done to protect services.

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크리스틴 황

• 10월 24, 2025

A close-up view of a child receiving a vaccine shot in their arm with their sleeve rolled up. Both the nurse and the child are wearing face masks and sitting near a table inside a make-shift clinic.

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As RFK pushes MAHA, federal cuts shut down California health and nutrition programs

Whether federal cuts are legal is still undecided. But local health departments have closed clinics, stopped programs, cut immunization appointments, and laid off workers anyway.

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크리스틴 황

• 9월 15, 2025

Two giant doors with oval glass windows illuminate the silhouettes of people standing around and talking to each other at the state Capitol in Sacramento.

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California leaders negotiate major policy changes in secret as legislative session ends

With just days until the legislative session wraps, California’s top Democrats are discussing a series of climate, energy and transit measures in backrooms. Details are so scant that even veteran lobbyists and advocates say they are confused and frustrated.

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유 스텔라 유

• 9월 9, 2025

A close-up view of two small medication boxes stacked on one another on a table. The top box is labeled “Wegovy,” and the bottom box is labeled Zepbound.”

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Gutting Medi-Cal’s weight loss drug coverage will cost California more in the long run

Gov. Gavin Newsom says these popular weight-loss drugs cost the state too much. But California could save about $3,000 per patient who lost weight. Other health conditions also would improve.

By Kenneth Thorpe • 8월 28, 2025

A Planned Parenthood letter sign outside a beige concrete building with glass windows.

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Planned Parenthood of California loses $300 million in federal funding under court order

Only a handful of Planned Parenthood organizations will continue to receive money from the federal government. None of them are in California.

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크리스틴 황

• 7월 23, 2025

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Higher premiums and lost coverage: How Trump’s budget changes health care in California

Lower-income people will be the hardest hit. Over the next 10 years, 3.4 million Californians could lose coverage.

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아나 B. 이바라

그리고

크리스틴 황

• 7월 10, 2025

A four-grid photo containing the images of four lawmakers. The lawmaker on the top left has blonde hair and wears a gray blazer. The lawmaker on the top right has their hair tied up in a bun and wears a purple pinstripe blazer. The lawmaker on the bottom left has curly brown hair tied up in a low ponytail and wears a blue blazer and white blouse. The lawmaker on the bottom left has short honey-colored hair and wears an orange blouse.

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‘Joy turned into shame’: California’s Latino Caucus agonized over slashing immigrant health care

One of the most powerful political blocs in California, the Latino Caucus had to balance reining in Medi-Cal's rising costs with helping undocumented immigrants. All but four overcame their misgivings and voted to freeze new enrollment and make other cuts to immigrant health insurance.

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크리스틴 황

• 7월 3, 2025

A group of people wearing blue scrubs sits and looks at a computer screen inside the hallway of a hospital, with beds and wheelchairs visible in the background in the hospital rooms.

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A California county may lose its only hospital. How a dispute over roads is endangering it

Glenn County's only hospital may be forced to close because a federal agency is removing its "critical access" designation. Patients would have longer waits for ambulances and longer drives for emergency care.

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아나 B. 이바라

• 6월 18, 2025