Federal law requires states to offer health insurance to many people with low incomes or disabilities. But some states, ...

The move will ensure coverage through June for 15 million people, including immigrants, who receive health care via the ...

Healthcare advocates and labor unions are mobilizing against proposed cuts, pressuring swing-district Republicans with ...

Health care advocates and labor unions are mobilizing against proposed cuts, pressuring swing-district Republicans with ...

Michael Schrader, chief executive of the Central California Alliance for Health, the local Medicaid plan for people in Merced ...

When Blair Isbell's food aid benefits arrive each month, the community college student and mother of two starts planning how to spend the roughly $7 per person per day she gets for groceries. Isbell ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation to close a $2.8 billion Medicaid funding gap despite Republicans in his ...

Medicaid helped cover medical costs for more than 72 million Americans as of October, and SNAP helped provide food for around 42 million people per month as of 2023. California, which is projected to ...

Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] Congress recently voted on a federal budget bill that would all but guarantee cuts to the Medicaid insurance program. Known in California as Medi-Cal ...

Potential cuts to Medicaid have Californians bracing for changes that could weaken recent gains in mental health care and ...

In a recent policy brief, Hashida explained that in addition to possible funding cuts to Medicaid, key federal behavioral health grants are also at risk. And California has already started to see ...