About half of states have broadened Medicaid, the state-federal low-income health care program, to pay for social services ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at East Los Angeles College on Feb. 26 in Monterey Park, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed that California roll back ...

Florence Owens, an In-Home Supportive Services aide, brings Carol Crooks her morning coffee in Oakland. Proposed Medicaid cuts could endanger funding for aides such as Owens. (Ronnie Cohen for KFF ...

Newsom Backs Away From Free Health Care For Undocumented Immigrants: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2025-26 revised budget proposal reneges on his signature policy to provide free health care coverage to all low ...

Fewer than two dozen rural hospitals were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals in the program’s first year. Now, advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are necessary to lure more takers and ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom was elected to office in 2019 on a promise of universal health care. He dramatically expanded coverage, but ...

Water Safe To Drink Again After LA Wildfires: Tap water is now safe to drink in areas served by all nine water systems where damage from the firestorms in Altadena and Pacific Palisades had prompted ...

More Californians are getting mental health or substance use disorder treatment online or over the phone than in person, ...