Following a petition from Democratic state attorneys general, the American Medical Association adopted a position that ...

Republican proposals to tighten the use of special taxes to fund Medicaid programs could deprive states of billions of ...

California Democrats Reject Newsom's Deep Budget Cuts: California legislative leaders announced Monday that they reached a budget proposal to address the state’s $12 billion expected deficit, leaning ...

SACRAMENTO — Nearly three years after California started fining residents who don’t have health insurance, the state has not distributed any of the revenue it has collected, KHN has learned — money ...

SACRAMENTO — Sonja Verdugo lost her husband to an opioid overdose last year. She regularly delivers medical supplies to people using drugs who are living — and dying — on the streets of Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — Doug and Connie Moore met at seminary. He was a student and pastor of an inner-city congregation, and she was a student and a public health nurse. “She’s the one who drew me to the needs ...

John Baackes, CEO of L.A. Care, stands in front of a window overlooking downtown Los Angeles on the 10th floor of the organization’s headquarters. Baackes will retire in January after nearly half a ...

Physician assistant Daniel Speller, who works for a new nonprofit medical group called Healthcare in Action, treats a leg wound on Robert Smith, who is homeless in Long Beach. (Angela Hart/KFF Health ...

SACRAMENTO — Californians will decide in November whether to lock the right to abortion into the state constitution. This story also ran on CBS News. It can be republished for free. If they vote “yes” ...

Would you rather be buried or cremated when you die? If you feel the way I do, the answer is neither. I cringe at the thought of my body burning up at well over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit or being ...

SACRAMENTO — The nation’s dialysis industry has poured $233 million into California campaigns over the past four years, establishing its leading companies as a formidable political force eager to ...

SACRAMENTO — President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and ...