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As health costs escalate, affordable care is out of reach for many — particularly California’s poorest residents. We help readers understand the struggle to lower costs and access barriers.

Meet the Team
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Ana B. Ibarra
Health Reporter
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Kristen Hwang
Health Reporter
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Jocelyn Wiener
Health Reporter
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Joe Garcia
California Local News Fellow
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Marla Cone
Deputy Editor
Climate Change
Trio of corporate interests spend big, urging Californians to just vote no
In California’s Democrat-dominated statehouse, big business usually plays defense. Liberal groups—like labor unions and environmentalists—typically push for new bills, while corporate interests work to kill them. Legislators feel that push and pull. A similar dynamic is now at play on California’s ballot, where major industries are spending big bucks to defeat policies backed by progressives. […]
By • October 12, 2016
Elections
How would the Prop. 56 tobacco tax really affect poor smokers?
This fall, California voters will decide whether to approve the biggest jump in cigarette taxes since the state began taxing tobacco in 1959. Prop. 56, backed by a wide coalition of public health, healthcare and union groups, would impose an additional $2 per-pack excise tax on cigarettes—raising the current state levy from 87-cents per pack […]
By • October 2, 2016
Health
Despite dire OB-GYN shortage, lawmakers won’t expand role of nurse-midwives
Affordable homes with ample lots lure many families to the town of Apple Valley in the Mojave Desert. But amenities are limited—no department stores, no Costco and, more importantly, few affordable medical care options for pregnant women. For Cassandra Lindstrom, that meant scheduling the birth of her second baby at a hospital at least an […]
By • September 7, 2016
Health
Where are California’s uninsured?
The number of Californians who have health insurance has grown by more than 2 million since the federal government began requiring two years ago that everyone have coverage. About 90 percent of Californians are insured, data show — up from 85 percent before major features of the federal law kicked in. But more than 3 million people in the state remain uninsured, […]
By • June 17, 2016
Economy
Hello, White House, how about Obamacare for California’s undocumented?
As the presidential election generates a heated national debate about immigration, California is ploughing ahead with policies to integrate undocumented immigrants, most recently, by expanding healthcare access. “It’s one of the most dramatic turnarounds in California political history,” said Daniel Zingale, senior vice president of the California Endowment, a nonprofit health foundation, about undocumented kids […]
By • May 4, 2016
Health
Reader reaction: A dentist questions safety paradigms
This letter was written in response to A child’s death and the power of the dental lobby, which CALmatters published on April 13, 2016. “There is no evidence that dental anesthesia under this model of care carries a greater risk than dental care with a second anesthesiologist present,” Alicia Malaby, spokeswoman for the California Dental […]
By • April 26, 2016

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As health costs escalate, affordable care is out of reach for many — particularly California’s poorest residents. We help readers understand the struggle to lower costs and access barriers.
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