Volunteers plan to help solve one of the more vexing questions of reform: how to reach the many people who don’t understand they are eligible for subsidies on the exchange or the expansion of Medi-Cal and then help them navigate the process of signing up for insurance.
If the playground is the great training ground for life, children like Tatum Bakker are missing crucial lessons. Tatum, now 2 ½, was born with Spina Bifida, a spinal cord malformation that causes partial paralysis. She can’t get around without the help of her parents or a wheelchair.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a critical opportunity to promote breast cancer awareness, share information on the disease, and help ensure greater access to services for those women battling breast cancer.
As the state Department of Health Care Services prepares to accept an estimated 1.1 million newly-eligible people into Medi-Cal, California is reducing its payments to many doctors and pharmacies who accept the state insurance by at least 10 percent
The Affordable Care Act is meant to bring insurance to nearly everyone, but it excludes one major group: undocumented immigrants. Yet the cost of care for these immigrants will not be going away. It will simply continue to be hidden in the cost of everyone’s insurance and in our tax bills. And that cost might actually be higher because undocumented immigrants will remain without a source of dependable care.
The state of California is looking to get ahead of the curve in implementing federal school nutrition guidelines. AB 626 by Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, will fill some of the gaps between California’s nutrition standards and the ones established by the USDA through the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act in 2010.
More than 5 million people will remain uninsured in the 26 states that chose not to expand Medicaid, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Consumption of sugary drinks among adolescents has increased by 8 percent even as younger children consumer fewer of the beverages, a new study has found. Only 19 percent of 2- to 5-year-olds drink a sugary beverage daily, according to the study which was based on interviews with 40,000 California households by the California Health Interview Survey. That’s a 30 percent decline from the last such
Teresa de los Santos put up with it for 14 years. The punching. The slapping. The constant surveillance. Now Teresa helps other victims as a counselor for Shelter From the Storm, which runs a network of domestic violence shelters in the Coachella Valley.
In many California school districts, nurses must be ready to jump in a car at a moment’s notice. One nurse often serves multiple schools, watching over hundreds if not more than a thousand students at a time.