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

In recent weeks, federal officials have signaled that support for creative uses of Medi-Cal funding is waning, particularly ...

But the state’ s ambitious plans face a looming threat: the proposed federal spending cuts that Congress is currently considering are seen as all but certain to impact Medicaid and could bring to a ...

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

Stretching California’s already fraying safety net even further, to cover people who aren’t here legally, is not compassion. It’s fiscal malpractice.

California’s multibillion-dollar budget ... nearly six in ten couldn’t schedule an appointment with kids facing mental health crises within the four-day window that is the state standard.