Author: Kalup Alexander
Majorities of Californians want to protect immigrant children brought to the U.S. illegally and improve the Affordable Care Act – but oppose the creation of a national single-payer health care system.
This week, Congress will mark up two measures to reauthorize funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and for states, those efforts come not a moment too soon.
Drug companies launched an ad and publicity extravaganza this year right after President-elect Donald Trump said they “are getting away with murder” on sky-high pill prices.
Insurers, hospitals and health advocates are waiting for Gov. Jerry Brown to deal the drug lobby a rare defeat, by signing legislation that would force pharmaceutical companies to justify big price hikes on drugs in California.
The resignation of embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price for using private jets for government travel is setting off a frenzy of speculation about who will replace him.
Medi-Cal enrollee Michael Gonzalez worked for months in 2015 to get to the Sutter specialists who ultimately treated his thyroid cancer, so he felt undermined this summer when Sutter Health announced that its primary-care doctors would no longer be serving 10,000 adult patients in Sacramento and Placer counties.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will take action to deal with the rising cost of prescription drugs, the agency’s head said on Monday.
The San Francisco-based firm’s existing book of 7,000 accounts will be transferred to OneDigital, an Atlanta-based brokerage, as Zenefits undergoes a transformation “to embracing the broker community and partnering with them in a pretty significant way,” Zenefits Chairman and CEO Jay Fulcher says.
Senate Republicans decided Tuesday not to hold a vote on unwinding the Affordable Care Act, preserving the landmark 2010 law for the foreseeable future even as they suggested they may withhold crucial funding for it.
Late in the day on September 25, 2017, the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation staff released their report on the Graham-Cassidy bill. Their analysis was apparently of an earlier version of the bill than the one released on September 24, 2017, but the provisions described and analyzed in the CBO report are virtually the same.