Legislators are proposing an employer-funded trust to insure many of the millions of Californians who will likely fall through the cracks of the Affordable Care Act.
Month: June 2013
The Center for Disease Control study was the first comprehensive report to assemble data on specific mental health illnesses among children ages 3 to 17 in the United States.
The Supreme Court decision that kept Obamacare intact made one major change to the legislation: the Medicaid expansion became optional. But California, one of the states leading on reforms, started the expansion of the state Medicaid program—known as Medi-Cal— three years ago. The early expansion in California and other states was intended to show the benefits and pitfalls of reforms before they were rolled out nationwide and to provide models for success.
Every child knows that when trouble strikes, when mom and dad just don’t understand, there’s always one person who will listen until everything is better. Grandma. Recent research, in fact, indicates that grandmothers who suffer from Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia may actually gain more empathy for the world around them. But can 13 grandmothers from around the globe help save the planet? Matt Perry’s latest column on aging with dignity.
Jerry Brown was the kid the first time he was governor, nearly 40 years ago. Now he is definitely providing adult supervision in Sacramento. Since retaking the executive suite, Brown has lectured Californians – and the Legislature – about the need to get real on the state budget. His stance is pretty simple: the state should not spend more than it takes in.
Even though the HPV vaccine is one of the only vaccines that prevents cancer, fewer than 50 percent of adolescent girls in California were fully vaccinated against HPV in 2011.
Thanks to scientific breakthroughs, Californians diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis don’t face a future in a wheelchair. But the benefits of these advances will only be fully realized once the legislature takes common-sense action to ensure that all patients have access to the treatments their doctors think best.
The nonprofit Southside Coalition pools their resources to develop a small network of primary care integrated with specialty care for their low-income clientele.
Health activists call for a new push focusing on allergens such as black mold and cockroach waste that they hold partially to blame for high asthma rates among children in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.
The exploding number of older adults in the United States – over 8,000 people turn 65 each day according to the U.S. Census Bureau – means Baby Boomers are staring into a terrifying abyss as a faltering economy wreaks havoc with retirement funds and the ability to pay for long-term care.