According to data from physician surveys, California's medical doctors are unevenly distributed across the state, and new doctors aren't being trained in great enough numbers to address this imbalance.
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Today’s Special: The Healing Power of Food

Xenia Shih Bion
Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal, Opioid Safety
Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The healing power of food is making its way from grandma’s kitchen into America’s restaurants and a health plan near you. Plus, the Supreme Court nomination.
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Forty Years of Winning Friends and Influencing People

Avram Goldstein
ACA/Health Reform, Insurance Coverage
Of more than 12,000 Americans who have served in Congress, few have had careers as productive as Henry Waxman’s. CHCF talked to the former Los Angeles-area congressman about US health policy.
Publication

Palliative Care in California: Narrowing the Gap

Kathleen Kerr
Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care
Palliative care services have grown substantially in California. Interactive maps and an issue brief shed light on progress that's been made and what gaps remain.
CHCF Blog

Melissa’s Story: Telehealth Is Knowing That Care Is Just a Call Away

Christopher Perrone
Telehealth
Melissa Phelps needed to see a specialist about her worsening rheumatoid arthritis. The specialist she needed was far away, but telehealth consultations closed that gap.
CHCF Blog

Maternal Mortality: A Human Rights Issue

Xenia Shih Bion
Maternal Health
Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: In the US, black women die during pregnancy and childbirth at a rate more than triple that of white women. Maternal mortality isn't just a women's rights issue — it's a human rights issue.
Publication

California Employer Health Benefits: Workers Shoulder More Costs

Heidi Whitmore, Jon Gabel
Insurance Coverage
California's workers are shouldering more of the costs for their health care with increasing premiums and higher deductibles and copays. This Almanac report presents data from the 2017 California Employer Health Benefits Survey.
Project

My Birth Matters: C-Section Consumer Education Campaign

Maternal Health
This campaign is designed to educate expectant mothers about cesarean delivery and encourage conversations between them, their doctor, and care team.
Publication

Six Facts About Undocumented Californians

Medi-Cal, Insurance Coverage
A new analysis of data from the most recent California Health Interview Survey reveals six key facts about the age, race/ethnicity, income, work status, and insurance status of California's undocumented population.
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July 17, 2018

San Francisco Steps Back From Safe Injection Sites Under Threat From Federal Laws
July 17, 2018

Judge Temporarily Halts Deportations of Reunited Families
July 17, 2018

Gubernatorial Candidates Highlight State Government Responses to Possible Reversal of Roe v. Wade