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Los Angeles County Has Cut Homelessness, but Wildfires Threaten To Erase That Gain

By Angela Hart February 26, 2025 KFF Health News Original

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.

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‘Waiting List to Nowhere’: Homelessness Surveys Trap Black Men on the Streets

By Angela Hart December 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

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.

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Caseworkers Coax Homeless People out of Las Vegas’ Tunnels for Treatment

By Angela Hart December 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

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.

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Crackdown on Homeless Encampments Raises Public Health Questions

By Angela Hart October 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

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 […]

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Calif. Ballot Measure Targets Drug Discount Program Spending

By Angela Hart October 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

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 […]

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Tossed Medicine, Delayed Housing: How Homeless Sweeps Are Thwarting Medicaid’s Goals

By Angela Hart September 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

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.

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The Rapidly Evolving Field of Street Medicine

By Angela Hart August 21, 2024 KFF Health News Original

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 […]

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Un grupo médico atiende a personas que viven en la calle… y gana dinero

By Angela Hart July 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

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.

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A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It

By Angela Hart July 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

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.

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Supreme Court OKs Local Crackdowns on Homelessness, as Advocates Warn of Chaos

By Angela Hart June 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In a momentous 6-3 decision that could affect communities across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court gave local officials and law enforcement more authority to fine and penalize homeless people living outside. Advocates for homeless people predict the ruling will lead to more sickness and death.

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Battleground Wisconsin: Voters Feel Nickel-and-Dimed by Health Care Costs

By Angela Hart June 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In the swing state of Wisconsin, the cost and availability of health care have emerged as key issues. Voters there say prescriptions, procedures, and health insurance policies are too expensive, and must be addressed by the next president, whether Republican or Democrat.

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Presidential Politics, Polka and Wisconsin

By Angela Hart June 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Wisconsin, the land of fried cheese curds and the Green Bay Packers, is one of a half-dozen key battleground states where President Biden is trying to make health care a key issue in his expected November matchup with former president Donald Trump. Biden narrowly won Wisconsin in 2020, after it went for Trump in 2016. […]

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States Push Medicaid Work Rules, but Few Programs Help Enrollees Find Jobs

By Sam Whitehead and Phil Galewitz and Katheryn Houghton April 15, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Republicans are pushing to implement requirements that Medicaid recipients work in order to obtain or retain coverage. Some states try to help enrollees find jobs. But states lack the data to show whether they’re effective.

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California Pays People With Addiction To Stay Clean — With Feds’ Blessing

By Angela Hart May 22, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Led by California, a few states are testing an experimental program that pays people to stop using hard drugs. The Golden State was the first to win approval from the Biden administration to cover the sobriety payments, with Medicaid wrapping it into an ambitious health-care initiative spearheaded by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to provide the […]

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California Pays Meth Users To Get Sober

By Angela Hart May 22, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California’s Medicaid program is testing a novel approach for people addicted to methamphetamine, cocaine, and other stimulants. For every clean urine test, they can earn money — up to $599 a year.

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Newsom Boosted California’s Public Health Budget During Covid. Now He Wants To Cut It.

By Angela Hart May 20, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Two years after increasing state and local public health budgets by $300 million annually, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes to slash the funding in the face of California’s $45 billion deficit.

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California’s $12 Billion Medicaid Makeover Banks on Nonprofits’ Buy-In

By Angela Hart May 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California’s Medicaid program is relying heavily on community groups to deliver new social services to vulnerable patients, such as security deposits for homeless people and air purifiers for asthma patients. But many of these nonprofits face staffing and billing challenges and haven’t been able to deliver services effectively.

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California Voters Are Skeptical That More Money Is the Answer to Homelessness

By Angela Hart March 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature ballot measure to address mental illness, addiction, and homelessness with a $6.4 billion bond and other reforms, is barely ahead in the ongoing ballot count. The slim margin reflects a growing unease among Californians over the governor’s homelessness initiatives.

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Newsom’s $6.4 Billion Homelessness Gambit Hangs by a Thread

By Angela Hart March 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious attempt to combat the mental health and addiction epidemic in his state is leading by a razor-thin margin, calling into question whether voters trust him to confront the state’s growing homelessness crisis. Newsom asked voters on Tuesday to approve his $6.4 billion bond measure, dubbed “Treatment not Tents” — the […]

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The Supreme Court Confronts a Public Health Challenge: Homeless Encampments

By Angela Hart February 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Homelessness is a soaring public health crisis, with a record 653,000 unhoused people in the United States, according to federal estimates. Tent and recreational vehicle encampments have exploded in recent years, crowding streets and sidewalks from Portland, Ore., to New York. In California, where roughly a third of all the nation’s homeless people live, doctors […]

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