Health

Proponents of single payer healthcare in California are strategizing about what do next after the speaker of the Assembly shelved the bill, saying it lacked critical details such as how it would be funded.

More than half of Californians worry they will lose health insurance if the Republican Congress and President Donald Trump repeal what's commonly known as Obamacare, according to a poll released today.

California’s Democratic legislators want to extend health benefits to undocumented young adults, the continuation of an effort that ushered children without legal status into the state’s publicly funded health care system last year. It is unclear when the program would start or how much the state would spend if the proposal, which could cost up […]

Democrats in the state Senate have OK'd legislation that would give Californians the option to buy “pro-choice” license plates – a small but symbolic rebuke to GOP threats to cut federal funds to Planned Parenthood or any medical provider who performs abortions.

In a vote likely to upend both political fortunes and insurance markets across California, the House passed the American Health Care Act today, a bill that would repeal and replace Obamacare. California, which invested heavily in participating in Obamacare, would be particularly affected if the bill becomes law.

A Senate panel this week approved legislation that would give Californians the option to buy a pro-choice license plate—a direct response to Trump efforts to strip federal funding from any medical provider who performs an abortion.

While GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan is insisting that the fight to repeal Obamacare is not over, Democratic leaders in California continue celebrating on social media over the House's failure to secure enough votes to pass the Republicans' replacement.

As news hit this week that the Congressional Budget Office estimated the GOP's Trumpcare proposal would leave millions without health care, California Democrats denounced it in what is becoming a Sacramento reflex.

In their proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the House GOP plan now being touted by President Trump includes an anti-abortion provision at odds with California law. Their bill would not allow people to use their tax credit to buy a health plan that includes abortion coverage. But that's is in direct conflict with California's legal requirement that health plans provide abortion coverage.

Struggling with what officials call the largest and most expensive toxic contamination in California history, embattled state regulators have changed the formula for assessing the level of lead-laced soil in residential areas—a move that could result in a significant number of homes falling off the priority cleanup list.