The expansion of Medicaid to millions of uninsured people should not have the catastrophic impact some predicted for state budgets because the increases in hospital and emergency room usage are only temporary, according to a new […]
The California Office of the Patient Advocate recently released “report cards” that rate major health plans on selected clinical care services, including cancer treatment, mental health, chronic disease management and patient satisfaction. The state timed the […]
The power play behind Proposition 45 could be fodder for an episode of House of Cards. You’d never think there’d be such positioning over who gets to regulate health insurance. But this is California. And no less […]
Unlike former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, Democrats in Congress decided as they worked on health care reform that providing coverage to the estimated 11.5 million undocumented residents in the U.S. would not be […]
Starting with an assessment of how far the U.S. health system still has to go and ending with a look back at how far it’s already come, state policy leaders got a wide range of […]
by Leila Morris – Of all the legislation that Sacramento has come out with nothing has the potential to be as damaging to insurance agents as proposition 45 – not even single-payer legislation, said Allen Katz, […]
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