By Daniel Weintraub Jim Wood tells a story about teeth that makes him smile. Wood — a dentist and a state assemblyman from Sonoma County — remembers the time a patient of his who was an elementary school teacher told him about a student suffering from serious dental problems. The little girl’s family was poor and they lived in a rural area. They couldn’t
Author: Daniel Weintraub
A drop of blood can reveal every virus a person has had. A new bill would limit the amount the state can take from Medi-Cal members’ estates. A bill to provide undocumented immigrants with health coverage cleared the state Senate. Pregnancy should be an insurance-eligible life event, lawmakers say. The senate also approved a bill to curb psych meds in foster care. Statistics on
More than 40 percent of California adults have a chronic health condition, and rates are higher in some regions, according to a new report. High blood pressure is the most common chronic condition, affecting about one in four adults in California, or 7.6 million people, says the April 28 report by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Adults living in the Inland Empire,
What’s the vaccination tipping point for wary parents? Advocates question whether there are gaps in coverage for California kids. Even when medically necessary, children face barriers to epileptic surgery. Health insurers aren’t following law to provide free women’s health services. Can technology help with the caregiver crisis? Almost 40% of California hospitals are graded C or lower for patient safety. The Medi-Cal expansion is
Citing budget constraints, planners of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging once envisioned a virtual affair, with online sessions streamed across the world without any actual presence inside the White House. In other words, a lackluster, disconnected event that kept policymakers separate from the actual lives of older adults.
The California Health Report Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Weintraub recently sat down in the studio with Jeanie Ward-Waller, California Policy Director for the Safe Routes to School National Partnership to talk about her work to make it easier for kids to walk or bike home from school.
California Health Report Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Weintraub interviews Dr. Ashby Wolfe. Wolfe is an expert on the connection between land use policy and health. She has a family practice in Oakland and also works to advocate for policy changes that promote community health.
California Health and Human Services Secretary, Diana Dooley leads 13 departments and is the chairwoman of Covered California, the new agency that’s implementing the affordable care act in California. But this interview between Daniel Weintraub, California Health Report Editor-in-Chief and California’s top health official, Dooley, isn’t about health care, it’s about health – and all the things we can do as individuals and communities to keep ourselves healthier, so we don’t need to go to a doctor or a hospital or worry that much about the quality of our insurance coverage.
The California Health Report Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Weintraub, interviews UC Davis Clinical Professor, Dr. Ronald Fong who is training the next generation of physicians to look outside the exam room to help their patients stay healthy. He advocates everything from taking walks with patients to training doctors to lobby local government for better land use policies.
In the first full year under the federal Affordable Care Act, California led the nation – embracing the new law eagerly, implementing it quickly, and providing relatively robust choice with low premiums through a web site that, most of the time, actually worked.