Days From Trump Inauguration, Journalists Weigh California, Federal Health Policies
January 18, 2025
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KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on regional media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Watch: California and Feds Invest in Health Care for Homeless People
October 27, 2023
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KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart discusses big developments in street medicine, both statewide and nationally.
Watch: California Pays Drug Users To Stay Clean
June 13, 2024
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KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart discusses a state Medicaid experiment for people addicted to methamphetamine, cocaine, and other stimulants. For every clean urine test, they can earn money — up to $599 a year.
Journalist Angela Hart Furnishes Framework on Homelessness in California
February 18, 2023
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KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Listen: Inroads for Women in California’s Health Care Workforce
October 16, 2023
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KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart leads a discussion about the role women play as California grapples with a shortage of health care providers.
Systemic Sickness
By Lydia Zuraw
October 30, 2024
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Treatment Tops Housing in Trump Homeless Policy
By Angela Hart
March 28, 2025
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Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment
By Angela Hart
March 27, 2025
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The Trump administration is moving to end the “Housing First” approach despite warnings from providers and homelessness experts that the shift won’t work. But with homelessness rising, President Donald Trump could find allies in blue cities and states as the public clamors for streets to be cleaned up.
Plan de Trump para las personas sin hogar: internar a la fuerza y menos fondos para viviendas
By Angela Hart
March 27, 2025
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Es un cambio agresivo en la principal política nacional contra el desamparo, que durante décadas ha dado prioridad al acceso a una vivienda como la forma más eficaz de combatir esta crisis.
Fires Undercut L.A.’s Headway on Homelessness
By Angela Hart
February 28, 2025
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As Los Angeles recovers from historic wildfires, both previously unsheltered and chronically homeless people are facing even greater instability. Some lawmakers and providers argue now is the time to put in even more resources to maintain the progress the county and state have made in fighting the crisis.
Los Angeles County Has Cut Homelessness, but Wildfires Threaten To Erase That Gain
By Angela Hart
February 26, 2025
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As Los Angeles recovers from historic wildfires, both previously unsheltered and chronically homeless people are facing even greater instability. Some lawmakers and providers argue now is the time to put in even more resources to maintain the progress the county and state have made in fighting the crisis.
‘Waiting List to Nowhere’: Homelessness Surveys Trap Black Men on the Streets
By Angela Hart
December 23, 2024
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Homelessness experts and community leaders say vulnerability questionnaires have worsened racial disparities among the unhoused by systematically placing white people in front of the line ahead of Black people. Now places like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Austin, Texas, are developing alternative surveys to reduce bias.
Caseworkers Coax Homeless People out of Las Vegas’ Tunnels for Treatment
By Angela Hart
December 23, 2024
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Street medicine providers and homeless outreach workers who travel into Las Vegas’ drainage tunnels have noticed an uptick in the number of people living underground, and it can be difficult to persuade them to come aboveground for medicine and treatment.
Crackdown on Homeless Encampments Raises Public Health Questions
By Angela Hart
October 23, 2024
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As states turn to the health-care system to help address homelessness, experiments with housing and other social services aimed at getting people healthier and off the streets are running up against new, aggressive crackdowns — with some cities ratcheting up enforcement of existing anticamping laws and others passing new restrictions. From Florida to California, elected […]
Calif. Ballot Measure Targets Drug Discount Program Spending
By Angela Hart
October 8, 2024
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Californians in November will weigh in on a ballot initiative to increase scrutiny over the use of health-care dollars — particularly money from a federal drug discount program — meant to support patient care largely for low-income or indigent people. The revenue is sometimes used to address housing instability and homelessness among vulnerable patient populations. Voters […]
Tossed Medicine, Delayed Housing: How Homeless Sweeps Are Thwarting Medicaid’s Goals
By Angela Hart
September 16, 2024
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As California cities crack down on homeless encampments in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling authorizing fines and arrests, front-line workers say such sweeps are undercutting billions in state and federal Medicaid spending meant to stabilize people’s health and get them off the streets.
The Rapidly Evolving Field of Street Medicine
By Angela Hart
August 21, 2024
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The rapidly evolving field of street medicine — the practice of providing health care to homeless people living outside — is getting a jolt in California with a new player: a medical group devoted exclusively to homeless people. And it’s actually making money. Sachin Jain, who worked on federal Medicaid policy during his tenure in […]
Watch: Big Medicaid Changes in California Leave Millions of Patients Behind
December 7, 2022
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KHN senior correspondent Angela Hart discusses how California’s big Medicaid experiment to bring social services to the sickest and costliest patients doesn’t help most patients.
Un grupo médico atiende a personas que viven en la calle… y gana dinero
By Angela Hart
July 19, 2024
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Estos médicos, enfermeros y trabajadores sociales se están desplegando en las calles de Los Ángeles para ofrecer atención médica y servicios sociales a las personas sin hogar: soldados de un nuevo modelo de negocio que está arraigándose en comunidades de toda California.
A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It
By Angela Hart
July 19, 2024
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Healthcare in Action, a California medical group that exclusively serves homeless people, has tapped into growing demand and funding for street medicine services. Three years in, the innovative nonprofit is raking in revenue and serving thousands of people who otherwise might flock to the hospital for high-cost care.
