Over 1.6 million Californians will benefit from the rescue plan, including 151,000 individual market enrollees who will qualify for subsidies for the first time and 135,000 uninsured people who will become insured.

Even after the American Rescue Plan increases premium subsidies for health insurance purchased through Covered California, large inequities remain in who has access to affordable coverage.

The state now has a rare opportunity to force health insurers to do more to improve the care that people with low incomes receive through Medi-Cal.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Researchers were stunned by the data they found.

California policymakers are turning their attention to a public health crisis that has bedeviled the state for decades: unjustifiably high and rising health care costs.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: US hospitals have been slow to comply with the disclosure regime that was implemented on January 1.

Using approaches tailored to local needs and resources, mobile teams provide humane care to unhoused people in cities and counties across California.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The mental health effects of economic instability can be countered by supportive economic policies, according to new research.

About 10 million Californians get their health care through a Medi-Cal managed care plan, but the state's contracts with those plans fail to ensure that these enrollees get the high-quality care they deserve.

In dermatology, where differences in patient skin color influence diagnosis and treatment, a legacy of structural racism is powerful and ongoing.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: As Native American communities see their relatives die in disproportionate numbers, they worry that these losses are not being fully recognized by a state data system that is misclassifying Native Americans as Latinx or multiracial.

A new campaign led by Bay Area comedian and CNN host W. Kamau Bell is providing Black communities with credible information about the COVID-19 vaccines.

The noted actor is using her new podcast to ease the shame and stigma that can follow traumatic events and mental health issues.

The American Rescue Plan Act is a bold and comprehensive federal response built on an accurate understanding of the roots of the pandemic crises.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Lack of housing is "unignorable" and puts responsibility squarely into the hands of health care practitioners, physician experts say.