After the Pandemic Hit Nursing Homes Hard, California Lawmakers Push to Tighten Licensing Rules
Some California lawmakers want to ban people or entities from buying or operating nursing homes unless they have a license...
‘Somebody Is Gonna Die’: Medi-Cal Patients Struggle to Fill Prescriptions
A month into its debut, California’s new Medicaid prescription drug program is riddled with problems, leaving thousands of patients without...
Clinics Say State’s New Medicaid Drug Program Will Force Them to Cut Services
California’s sweeping new program to buy prescription drugs for its nearly 14 million Medicaid patients has alarmed health clinics that...
After ‘Truly Appalling’ Death Toll in Nursing Homes, California Rethinks Their Funding
Covid-19’s unrelenting spread exposed deep, systemic problems with the quality of care — or lack thereof — at nursing homes...
You’ve Added Your Kids to Your Health Plan. What About Mom?
Many states have experimented with how to cover America’s roughly 33.2 million uninsured people, about 400,000 of whom are 65 or older.