Two years into her tenure as CEO of San Francisco's major public hospital, Susan Ehrlich is enchanted with her work and the management technique that won her the job.

The Department of Homeland Security has released highly anticipated proposed changes to "public charge" rules that could disqualify many immigrants from gaining permanent residency in the US. Our Washington, DC, experts explain what the proposals mean.

Immigrants in California contributed far more in premiums for private health insurance coverage than their insurers paid out for their care from 2008 to 2014, according to new research.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The House overwhelmingly passed a comprehensive bill to battle the opioid crisis on Friday, September 28, and now the bill moves to the Senate. The legislation is a start, but journalists report that it is no panacea for a complex public health crisis that is killing 115 Americans a day.

CHCF is hitting the road to hear from other states’ health plans, providers, entrepreneurs, investors, and state officials about how technology could improve all 51 Medicaid programs in the states and D.C. Through those conversations, we hope to identify a shared set of problems for which technology might hold scalable solutions.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Health care researchers, economists, providers, and journalists gathered on September 17 to grapple with the billion-dollar question that Health Affairs posed in its September theme issue, “California: Leading the Way?”

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: A losing hand in a high-stakes legal fight in Texas over the validity of the Affordable Care Act could cause tens of millions of Americans, including many with preexisting conditions, to lose health insurance coverage.

Many health care systems are changing the way they operate and embracing new technologies to better organize care delivery while addressing the worsening shortage of physicians.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: California is often seen as a bellwether state — a leader in everything from clean energy to defending immigrant rights — so it’s no surprise that health care in California is the theme of a special issue of Health Affairs.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: To make one giant leap for the US health care system, perhaps we need to channel Neil Armstrong and focus on the small steps. That’s the takeaway from a New York Times article about health economists trying to identify small tweaks to the health care system.

It isn’t financial and staff capacity that determines a safety-net organization’s ability to embrace technology-driven change. It’s executive leadership and organizational culture.

Our nation is not about the differences that drive us apart — it’s about the values that have bound us together through every test. Throughout his career and until his last breath, Senator McCain understood that.

CHCF recently published the latest edition in its wide-ranging Almanac series, "California Emergency Departments: Use Grows as Coverage Expands." Kristof Stremikis, director of CHCF's Market Analysis and Insight team, talks about the important findings.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: With opioid-related deaths skyrocketing, an Oakland emergency physician has launched a program to initiate medication-assisted treatment before patients walk out the hospital door.

A new CHCF survey of participants in California’s employer-based insurance market shows that employers and workers may be reaching their limit on out-of-pocket spending.