HAC Comments on Hospital Requests to Decrease Charity Care Obligations
Governor Brown Releases 2018-2019 #CABudget
On January 10, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown released his 2018-19 proposed State Budget, which includes $131.7 billion in general fund spending and continues California’s commitments to implementing and improving upon the Affordable Care Act. Health advocates are urging the Governor and the Legislature to continue support for Medi-Cal and make investments to cover the […]
Three Ways that Access to Health Care in California Improves This Year, Despite Federal Attacks
Despite epic threats to our health care system from federal proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act and massively cut and cap Medicaid, California policymakers successfully worked to both hold consumers harmless from administration attacks on our health care, and significant progress in 2017 to not just protect the progress the state made in reducing […]
Controlling Health Care Costs
Health insurance can be much cheaper if it does not pay for health care — taking the health out of health insurance! Real solutions are about cost-effective care, not about shifting costs and risks to the consumer. Phony Solutions: Taking the Health out of Health Insurance The first question to ask in debating cost containment […]
Open Enrollment Starts Today: Consumer Advocate Advice for Californians
Covered California is open for business! Today, Covered California will begin open enrollment for around 1.4 million Californians, who will be able to choose among eleven health plans regardless of pre-existing conditions and get financial assistance to afford health coverage. California’s open enrollment will remain a 90-day period (ending on January 31, 2017), even as […]
14 California Congressmembers Vote to Slash CA’s Health Care–And Potentially Raise Taxes on CA, Too
On a strict party-line vote among the California delegation, the House of Representatives earlier today voted 216-212 for a federal budget resolution which includes massive cuts to health and other vital services, and sets the stage for a so-called tax cut package that may well raise taxes for many Californians. Constituents held events in front […]
Assembly Holds Hearings on Universal Coverage in California: Day 1
This week, the Assembly Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage held two hearings to continue the conversation about how California can achieve universal health coverage. It is the hope of the committee that these hearings will set the framework that will inform how the Assembly can pursue policy solutions towards universal […]
Graham-Cassidy Repeal Stalls But #Fight4OurHealth Isn’t Over
The U.S. Senate announced today that it will not take a vote on the Graham-Cassidy ACA repeal proposal, which would have undone key patient protections, cut and capped Medicaid, and phased-out (and by 2027 zeroed-out) all funding from the Affordable Care Act. The proposal would have been devastating – deliberately and disproportionately – for California’s health care system, ultimately resulting in $53 billion/year in cuts and over 7 million more uninsured in our state.
Over 100 CA Groups Urge CA Representatives to Denounce Anti-CA Graham-Cassidy
Today, over 100 health, consumer, and patient groups called on our California Congressmembers to denounce the new ACA repeal legislation by Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, which would not just cut California’s budget and health system by tens of billions of dollars and leave over 6.7 million more Californians uninsured, but would […]