Actually 2020 is turning out to be a “big health care year for California,” but not in the way Governor Newsom imagined it would. His plans included bringing the state closer to universal healthcare by expanding Medi-Cal and reducing the cost of […]
Author: Georgia Brewer
The week in healthcare reform Our Weekly News Roundup brings you snippets of news and brief commentary on topics related to America’s failing healthcare system, with a special focus on Medicare for All and California. Newly unemployed, newly uninsured. . . . […]
Once again we see the complete inadequacy of “band-aid” solutions to our broken healthcare non-system. While our legislators tout “relief bills” they passed, patients who seek testing for COVID-19 often end up facing a crushing amount of medical debt, like this young […]
Congress has apparently normalized the practice of loading up bills with riders, which are provisions that have little or no connection to the stated purpose of the bill. Often these provisions have far-reaching consequences, about which the American people aren’t informed. And […]
The week in healthcare reform Our Weekly News Roundup brings you snippets of news and brief commentary on topics related to America’s failing healthcare system, with a special focus on Medicare for All and California. Many of us will lose our health […]
Coronavirus Cheat Sheet courtesy of HEAL California Knowing that many sources of information about COVID-19 and the pandemic are not always easy to find, the HEAL Team put together this “cheat sheet” for our subscribers. It is compiled from sources that […]
There’s no question that in early 2020, while COVID-19 was slowly starting to spread through the U.S. population, there was a disastrous failure to test patients and track their contacts. What happened, and why? This Kaiser Health News article paints a picture […]
The week in healthcare reform Our Weekly News Roundup brings you snippets of news and brief commentary on topics related to America’s failing healthcare system, with a special focus on Medicare for All and California. “America is less prepared for a pandemic […]