Health

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.

Today, House Republicans finally pulled back the curtain on their legislative effort to replace the Affordable Care Act.

If President Trump and conservative Republicans in Congress succeed in cutting off Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds, the impact will be particularly strong in California—a state where legislators over the years have interpreted federal laws and rules in ways that have allowed more federal dollars to flow to Planned Parenthood clinics. Roughly half of the federal funding that Planned Parenthood receives nationwide now goes to cover health care for Californians.

A small brown paper bag in her hand, Julie walked out of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Roseville with a new supply of birth control. It didn’t matter that she didn’t have health insurance. “It’s awesome to have Planned Parenthood,” said Julie, who did not wish to give her last name for privacy reasons. “To […]

Single-payer healthcare is once again up for debate in Sacramento, as two state senators push a bill to establish a plan before the federal government repeals the Affordable Care Act. Supporters say this bill may have a better chance given the anxiety created by the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle Obamacare, insisting "we’ll never get 100 percent health care in California unless we lead.”

Planned Parenthood is prepping for a battle. The organization, which has 115 centers in the Golden State and serves 850,000 people annually, receives Medi-Cal and Title X family planning funding and attributes about 40 percent of its revenue to federal dollars. But Congress and the Trump administration are vowing to strip the organization of hundreds of millions of federal dollars.

On a recent rainy morning in Los Angeles, Maria Bernal’s stove clicks to life with a bright blue flame to toast bread on a griddle for her 9-year-old son Edwin to smear with peanut butter. As she scoops papaya chunks into the blender for a smoothie, she recalls her worry during all the years when […]