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Health Industry Wields Power in California’s High-Stakes Battle to Lower Health Care Costs

By Angela Hart and Samantha Young October 13, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to regulate out-of-control health care spending in California. The effort is being shaped by the very health industry players that would be regulated.

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Lawmakers Pressure Newsom to ‘Step Up’ on Racism as a Public Health Issue

By Angela Hart June 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

California Democratic lawmakers are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to approve $100 million per year to fund programs that address health inequality and structural racism.

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From Racial Justice to Dirty Air, California’s New AG Plots a Progressive Health Care Agenda

By Angela Hart June 2, 2021 KFF Health News Original

In a candid interview, California’s newly appointed attorney general, Rob Bonta, reflects on his progressive roots and says he will pursue a health care agenda centered on the principle that quality medical care is a right, not a privilege.

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Despite Pandemic, Newsom Declines to Boost Local Public Health Budgets — Again

By Angela Hart May 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has, for the third consecutive year, rejected new state funding for local public health departments. Frustrated legislative leaders and public health officials are trying to change his mind.

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California Inks Sweetheart Deal With Kaiser Permanente, Jeopardizing Medicaid Reforms

By Bernard J. Wolfson and Angela Hart and Samantha Young February 3, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The backroom deal with politically connected Kaiser Permanente, which infuriated other Medi-Cal health plans, allows the health care giant to continue selecting the enrollees it wants.

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Salesforce, Google, Facebook. How Big Tech Undermines California’s Public Health System.

By Angela Hart May 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has outsourced his way through the covid-19 pandemic, tasking his private-sector allies in Silicon Valley and the health care industry with fundamental public health duties such as testing, tracing and vaccination. Among the losers: the state’s weakened public health system.

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Journalists Explore Inefficiency and Inequities of Vaccine Rollout

February 5, 2021 KFF Health News Original

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.

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Newsom Wants to Spend Millions on the Health of Low-Income Mothers and Their Babies

By Anna Almendrala June 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Democratic legislators back measures that would end the “pink tax” on diapers and menstrual products, provide mental health support, and pilot a guaranteed-income program.

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‘Go Ahead and Vote Me Out’: What Other Places Can Learn From Santa Rosa’s Tent City

By Angela Hart April 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As cities across California wrestle with a crisis of homelessness that has drawn international condemnation, Santa Rosa’s bold experiment with a city-sanctioned encampment suggests a way forward.

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KHN on the Air This Week

December 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

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.

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Leader of California’s Muscular Obamacare Exchange to Step Down

By Bernard J. Wolfson and Angela Hart September 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Peter Lee helped create Covered California, which has been lauded as a national example among the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces, and he fiercely opposed Republican efforts to repeal the federal health reform law.

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KHN on the Air This Week

November 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

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.

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California’s Reboot of Troubled Medi-Cal Puts Pressure on Health Plans

By Bernard J. Wolfson Photos by Heidi de Marco September 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The nine commercial insurers in Medi-Cal must reapply by submitting bids for new contracts. The state hopes the process will improve care for low-income residents and tighten accountability, something critics say has been missing.

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KHN on the Air This Week

December 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

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.

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Vaccination Chaos in California Fuels Push to Recall Gov. Newsom

By Angela Hart January 29, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The growing public backlash over California’s messy vaccine rollout is putting immense pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom, a first-term Democrat facing a Republican-driven recall effort.

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KHN on the Air This Week

October 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

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.

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KHN on the Air This Week

October 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

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.

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California Budget Reflects ‘Pandemic-Induced Reality,’ Governor Says

By Angela Hart January 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2021-22 budget blueprint would direct billions in state covid assistance to schools, businesses and the state’s vaccination effort. But he didn’t propose more funding for the state’s 61 local health agencies, which have taken on increased responsibility for testing, contact tracing and enforcement of health orders.

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California’s COVID Enforcement Strategy: Education Over Citations

By Angela Hart December 22, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Gov. Gavin Newsom said in July that California would target businesses that flagrantly violate public health orders. But the state’s strategy of education over enforcement means that businesses that don’t comply face few — if any — consequences.

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It’s Not Just QAnon. Democrats and Independents Also Want to Recall California’s Governor.

By Angela Hart and Samantha Young March 29, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Gov. Gavin Newsom is painting the effort to remove him from office as a partisan power grab. But among the tens of thousands of Californians who signed the recall petition are Democrats and independent voters frustrated by his pandemic policies, from school closures to vaccine distribution.

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