Health Care

Hospitals often charge California’s small businesses more than Medicare for the same treatments and tack on hidden “facilities fees.”

The Unruh Civil Rights Act provides the fundamental protection for equal access to health care regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, experts say. The state has not acted to uphold those protections, transgender rights groups claim.

Black Californians are five times more likely than others to die of prostate cancer. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have cut screening costs.

Jerry McCormick’s path to recover from prostate cancer has been anything but linear. Documenting progress and setbacks helps him find purpose.

Hundreds of California children are stuck in hospitals because their families wait months or years for private nursing care they’re legally entitled to.

Latinos’ share of California’s economic productivity grew twice as fast — and the workforce grew 15 times faster — than non-Latinos’.

A California company is using AI to help diagnose homeless Californians. The technology promises better access to health care, but it also raises questions.

California’s health system faces a $30 million gutting. Unions and advocates want a wealth tax targeting billionaires to make up the loss.

Newsom has already vowed to tank a proposed ballot initiative that would impose a 5% wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to bolster Medi-Cal. Progressive lawmakers and their allies in labor and health seem hopeful that Newsom could support a different long-shot funding idea.

California health care was hit hard in 2025: more than three million may lose Medicaid, Covered California subsidies at risk, and the state froze enrollment for undocumented residents amid budget cuts.