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

Gov. Gavin Newsom said that he’s proud his state expanded health care to all low-income residents regardless of immigration ...

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

About half of states have broadened Medicaid, the state-federal low-income health care program, to pay for social services such as housing and nutritional support. The Trump administration, however, ...

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 ...

California’s Abortion Protections Tested: Disputes playing out in a small courtroom in Eureka highlight the limits of California’s efforts to protect abortion rights since the Supreme Court in 2022 ...

Psychiatric Hospital Abused Patients For Years, State Finds: The state’s watchdog agency for people with disabilities has found that College Hospital in Cerritos (Los Angeles County), a for-profit ...

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 ...