The government has finalized immigration restrictions, creating a preference for wealthy, English-speaking, insured, and educated immigrants, while erecting hurdles for immigrants who are poor. 

A new research project is exploring how Californians in the safety net experience their health care and what they hope to get out of their encounters.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: A new study suggests that the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion reduced death rates among older adults with low incomes.

America has the power to prevent gun deaths. But only if our government — and specifically, our federal government — has the courage and humanity to act.

California is 1 of 22 states that do not permit nurse practitioners to practice and prescribe without ongoing physician oversight. This means Californians living in rural areas must cope with health workforce shortages that could be assuaged by expanding scope of practice for NPs.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Innovative peer counseling is expanding access to mental health services and meeting patients where they are with culturally competent care.

Newborn care experts in Humboldt County are changing the way they treat babies born with opioid dependence. The babies spend less time in the hospital and receive less medication.

After five years leading CHCF's High-Value Care Team and its opioid safety portfolio, Kelly Pfeifer, MD, will become deputy director of mental health and substance use disorder services for California state government.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The Trump administration’s changes to the Title X Family Planning Program are expected to severely reduce access to reproductive health services in California and across the country.

For more than a decade, state and federal policymakers have argued for greater health care price transparency. Their efforts received a push in recent weeks.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: A pediatrician documents terrible conditions for kids separated from their parents at the border and put into detention centers.

The federal government seeks to modify federal policies with harmful changes that could hurt immigrants’ access to health care and other public benefits while weakening the health and social safety net.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: New polling shows how people are thinking about key health care issues.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: In a case that could eventually lead to significantly reduced federal funding for health care and social services in California, the high court temporarily ruled against inclusion of a controversial census question.

New data on California health insurance markets show overall enrollment changed little from 2017 to 2018, as declines in Medi-Cal managed care and the individual market were mostly offset by increased membership in employer-sponsored small- and large-group plans.