Your support is needed for SB 4 (Lara), the Health for All Act, which is being heard in the Assembly Health Committee on July 7th at 1:30 PM. In this year’s budget, the state invested $40 million to expand health care coverage to…
The tides of justice surged through this morning when the Supreme Court affirmed marriage equality nationwide. While 37 states and the District of Columbia currently recognize same-sex marriage, now under the 14th Amendment, all 50 states must issue marriage licenses to…
This morning, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) premium tax credits available in all states. As he did in the Court’s previous decision on the ACA in 2012, Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion.…
A couple weeks back, we wrote about how San Francisco took a key step toward reducing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by passing an ordinance requiring warning labels on advertisements for the products. We also talked about ongoing efforts at the…
This post was originally published by Kidsdata.org. Ground-level ozone, which is formed from car and power plant emissions and is a primary component of smog, poses considerable health risks for all, but especially for children. At the start of the…
Your support is needed to ensure consumers are informed about their health insurance benefits and know which doctors and hospitals are in their networks. Urge the California Assembly Committee on Health to pass legislation requiring translation of a health plan’s…
The work of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is an invaluable resource for us at CPEHN and for everyone working on achieving equity in health. As the leading federal agency for health services research, AHRQ’s annual National…
Earlier today, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research hosted a webinar to look at the current state of available data on sexual orientation and gender identity and how the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) has played a key role…
Today, California took an important step towards making affordable health care more accessible. The budget deal announced this afternoon includes a $40 million investment in Medi-Cal to enable all low-income children, regardless of immigration status, to access comprehensive health coverage.…
Yesterday in Sacramento, Health Affairs (a leading journal of health policy and research), the Blue Shield of California Foundation, and the California HealthCare Foundation hosted an event,The California Medi-Cal Waiver: Perspectives on Promoting Health System Improvement in California. The event highlighted the opportunities…