Alex Leeds Matthews

Voters To Settle Dispute Over Ambulance Employee Break Times

KFF Health News Original

Unlike most other workers, private-ambulance employees are frequently called away from their meals and rest breaks to respond to emergency calls, but there’s no law explicitly allowing that practice. Proposition 11 would change that, but some say its real purpose is to get California’s largest ambulance company out of costly litigation.

Could California Shape The Fate Of The Affordable Care Act In November?

KFF Health News Original

With the primary now over, health care may well emerge as an issue that helps voters distinguish between candidates for governor, attorney general and other offices in the general election.

California’s Deadly STD Epidemic Sets Record

KFF Health News Original

Rates of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia in California have shot up 45 percent over five years, resulting in 30 syphilis-related stillbirths in 2017 alone, new state data show.