SEIU-UHW Reports Nearly One-Third of State Legislators, Members of Congress...
SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West logo Facebook Twitter Pinterest × SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West logo OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Public opposition to the pending...
View ArticleCAPS: Sergio Romo Flubs Pitch For Medi-Cal For Illegal Aliens Romo Pitching...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After recently signing a $15 million dollar contract to pitch for the San Francisco Giants, Sergio Romo has taken on the pitching...
View ArticleLife and Death in Health Care’s Trenches
Is a nursing home a safe place? The question is not, is a nursing home a nice place? Not much room for argument there. Nursing home are not popular places. The question here, though, is it is a safe...
View ArticleCalifornia’s undocumented kids could be first to lose medical care under Trump
LOS ANGELES – On a recent rainy morning, 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...
View ArticleObamacare rates to rise 4% in California for 2016
California's Obamacare exchange negotiated a 4% average rate increase for the second year in a row, defying dire predictions about health insurance sticker shock across the country. The modest price...
View ArticleDan Walters: Medi-Cal enrollees soar past 12 million
Sacramento The Supreme Court will soon decide whether residents of states that refused to implement Obamacare are entitled to federal insurance subsidies. Whatever it decides, the court’s decree will...
View ArticleMedi-Cal, Medicare now pay for advance planning of your end-of-life care
Millions of Californians are newly eligible for a health care benefit that could determine the treatment they receive in their final days – and most don’t know it. Medi-Cal, which covers more than 13...
View ArticleSix things to know about the GOP’s plan to repeal Obamacare
The Republican plan to redo the Affordable Care Act was supposed to quell months of speculation about the future of former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Instead, since its late...
View ArticleTrump wants to make Medicaid recipients work to get benefits. That’s a very...
As soon as Seema Verma was sworn in as the new administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, overseeing America's two biggest health programs, she and Health and Human Services...
View ArticleTaxpayers Foot 70 Percent Of California’s Health Care Tab, Study Finds
This year, taxpayers will cover about 70 percent of what is spent on health care in California, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Many people...
View ArticleNew rules to limit Medi-Cal ‘death fees’
Another in a series of columns answering consumers’ questions about California’s changing medical landscape. Six months after her mother died in 2014, Karen Craig opened her mailbox to find a bill for...
View ArticleUnder Obamacare, Medi-Cal ballooned to cover 1 in 3 Californians
California officials never anticipated how many people would sign up for state-run health insurance under Obamacare. The state's health plan for the poor, known as Medi-Cal, now covers 12.7 million...
View ArticleProposition 52: Extending hospital fee would help fund Medi-Cal
Lined up against the likes of legalizing pot and abolishing the death penalty, Proposition 52 is probably the last measure that even the most earnest voters will get around to discussing at their...
View ArticleMedi-Cal rolls could swell under Obama's deportation relief plan
President Obama's executive actions on immigration, which have sparked a fierce political backlash nationwide, could also provide an unlikely boost for another of his goals: increasing health insurance...
View ArticleMore Previously Uninsured Californians Got Coverage Under Obamacare
9:56 AM ET from Lisa Aliferis i Enrollment counselor Vue Yang (left) reviews health insurance options for Laura San Nicolas (center), accompanied by her daughter, Geena, 17, at Sacramento Covered in...
View ArticleWhat Would A Public Insurance Option Look Like?
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The “public option,” which stoked fierce debate in the run-up to the Affordable Care Act, is making a comeback — at least among Democratic politicians. The proposal to create a...
View ArticleObamacare: Key moves by Covered California helped keep premiums down
The nation’s ever-controversial health care law suffered a black eye last week after the federal government announced that next year’s premiums for those who depend on the Affordable Care Act would...
View ArticleAir Force staff sergeant promotion list for August, 2015
The U.S. Air Force's list of airmen promoted to staff sergeant, as released on Aug. 20, 2015. Abadia Christopher Abarawa Emmanuel K Abbott Daniel Patr Abdullah Malizio J Abendroth Marie Ch Abesamis...
View ArticleAdvocates Allege Discrimination In California’s Medi-Cal Program
LOS ANGELES – A coalition of civil rights advocates Tuesday called for a federal investigation of California’s Medicaid program, alleging that it discriminates against millions of low-income Latinos by...
View ArticleAuditor Slams California’s Oversight Of Medi-Cal Plans Used By 9 Million
California health officials failed to ensure that more than 9 million residents enrolled in Medi-Cal managed care plans had access to doctors when they needed them, the state auditor said in a stinging...
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