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The California Health Care Foundation is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.
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The U.S. spends only about 5 cents of every health care dollar on primary care. Other high-income countries spend three times that much. This chronic underinvestment creates a cascade of problems.
Health care spending depends on two things: how much care patients get and the prices that are charged for that care. In California, there is a big problem with pricing.
The U.S. spends five times more on administrative health care functions than other wealthy nations, on average. It’s like this because our systems are not standardized, automated, or easily connected.
Health care costs hurt Californians every day. Millions can’t afford the care they need. More than half of all Californians skip or delay getting care because it costs too much. How did we get here?
This study measures primary care spending, as a proportion of overall spending, among commercial health plans and provider organizations (POs) in California. Among POs, more investment in primary care was associated with better quality, fewer ED visits, and lower total…
When court proceedings in the Sutter Health antitrust case are finally over, the work of promoting competition in California’s health care marketplace won’t be finished.
Stories That Caught Our Attention: The Supreme Court on November 10 heard oral arguments in California v. Texas, the third time a major legal challenge to the ACA has reached the high court.
A state-sponsored generic drug label could enable California to address market failures and bring the nation closer to the goal of affordable, accessible, essential medicines for patients.