The New York Times: Senate Health Bill Reels As C.B.O. Predicts 22 Million More Uninsured
The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act was edging toward collapse on Monday after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026. (Kaplan and Pear, 4/26)

The Washington Post: Senate GOP Health-Care Bill Appears In Deeper Trouble Following New CBO Report
Senate Republicans’ bill to erase major parts of the Affordable Care Act would cause an estimated 22 million more Americans to be uninsured by the end of the coming decade, while reducing federal spending by $321 billion during that time, according to the Congressional Budget Office. (Goldstein and Snell, 6/26)

NPR: CBO Says Senate Health Bill To Repeal Obamacare Would Leave 22 Million More Uninsured
The CBO says low-income Americans in their 50s and early 60s would be disproportionately likely to lose their health care coverage under the Senate bill. Although people buying insurance in the individual market would see lower premiums in many cases, the policies would cover less, and out-of-pocket costs would be higher. (Horsley, 6/26)

CQ Roll Call: Senate GOP Bill Would Leave 22 Million More Uninsured, CBO Says
Under the Senate bill, average premiums for plans for single individuals would be about 20 percent higher in 2018 than under current law, in large part because the penalty for not having insurance would be eliminated, so fewer healthy people would enroll. Premiums would be about 10 percent higher than under current law in 2019, CBO said in its analysis of the Senate bill. Younger people would pay less for plans, CBO said. But in 2020, the year of the next presidential contest, average premiums for benchmark plans for single individuals would be about 30 percent lower than under current law, CBO said. (Young, 6/26)

Politico: CBO: 22 Million More Uninsured Under Senate Health Bill
The estimated coverage losses are just slightly less than for the House-passed version of the Obamacare repeal bill, which concern Republican moderates who have pushed Senate leaders to craft a more generous bill. (Cancryn, 6/26)

The Washington Post: A Person Making $11,400 In 2026 Will Face A Deductible That’s More Than Half Their Income
Most people are focused on how many people would lose insurance under the Senate health-care bill compared with current law: an estimated 22 million, according to the new Congressional Budget Office analysis. But the report digs deeper into the kind of insurance that people, especially poor people, would be able to access -- and finds that it would be so financially burdensome with high deductibles that many people would choose not to sign up. (Johnson, 6/26)

The Wall Street Journal: Senate Health Bill Raises Uninsured By 22 Million In 2026 Compared With ACA, The CBO Says
[The] assessment threw into doubt whether the bill would make it past an initial procedural hurdle as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is engaged in last-minute negotiations with more than a half-dozen GOP lawmakers wavering in their support of the bill. Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) said she would vote against the bill, citing the CBO report. (Armour, Peterson and Radnofsky, 6/26)

Los Angeles Times: Senate Healthcare Overhaul Hits Trouble As Republicans Hesitant To Proceed To Vote
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hoped to start procedural votes by Wednesday, and President Trump called key senators over the weekend as support splintered. It's the same political dynamic that stalled the House Republican bill last month, as conservative and centrist factions wrestle for dominance. Conservatives want a more complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which they hope will lower premium costs, while centrists are trying to avoid leaving millions of Americans without health coverage. (Mascaro, 6/26)

The Associated Press: Budget Office Sees 22 Million Fewer Covered With Senate Bill
The CBO analysis suggested some ammunition GOP leaders could use, saying the Senate bill would cut federal deficits by $202 billion more over the coming decade than the version the House approved in May. Senate leaders could use some of those additional savings to attract moderate votes by making Medicaid and other provisions more generous, though conservatives would rather use that money to reduce red ink. (6/27)

Politico: Republicans Eye Billions In Side Deals To Win Obamacare Repeal Votes
Republicans in the White House and in Congress were pleasantly surprised that the bill included more savings than they expected — and are trying to figure out if they can dole it out for votes. The Senate has about $188 billion to play with. (Dawsey and Everett, 6/26)

The Associated Press: These Senators Will Make Or Break The GOP's Health Care Push
President Donald Trump's campaign promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare" is now in the hands of a key group of GOP senators who are opposing —or not yet supporting — legislation Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing to bring to a vote this week. These lawmakers range from moderate to conservative Republicans, and include senators who were just re-elected and a couple facing tough re-election fights. (6/27)

Politico: Senate Democrats Rally Against GOP Health-Care Bill
It’s time again for Senate Democrats to burn the midnight oil. Senate Democrats launched yet another night of floor speeches on Monday night castigating the GOP’s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare — a talk-a-thon led by Sens. Patty Murray of Washington and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii that ran several hours after the Senate’s 5:30 p.m. votes. (Kim, 6/26)

The Washington Post: Senators Take The Health-Care Debate To Capitol Steps
On Monday night, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) gathered colleagues on the steps outside the Senate, where they talked for hours into a Facebook feed as activists filed in and out to watch the debate. The tone alternated between grim stories of people who would lose access to Medicaid, and in-jokes between the senators. “We've brought in Papa Smurf!” said Booker when Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) arrived to join the Facebook Live talk. (David Weigel, 6/26)

Bloomberg: Medicaid's Starring Role In U.S. Health-Care Flap: QuickTake Q&A 
The biggest single change called for by the Republican health-care bill that may be voted on by the U.S. Senate this week is its reduction in federal spending on Medicaid, the program for poor and disabled Americans. The bill is being championed by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and backed by U.S. President Donald Trump as a way to "repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The Senate bill, like one passed in May by the House of Representatives, would roll back Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid and make other far-reaching changes to the program as well. (Greifeld and Tracer, 6/27)

The Associated Press: Medicaid Mission Creep Threatens GOP's 'Obamacare' Repeal
Somewhere along the way, the Republican crusade to repeal "Obamacare" also turned into an effort to limit the future growth of Medicaid. That bit of mission creep is complicating prospects for the GOP, and could lead to deadlock. (6/27)

NPR: Why Medicaid Takes Up One-Tenth Of The Federal Budget
Medicaid is the government health care program for the poor. That's the shorthand explanation. But Medicaid is so much more than that — which is why it's become the focal point of the battle in Washington to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. President Obama expanded Medicaid under his signature health care law to cover 11 million more people, bringing the total number of people covered up to 69 million. (Kodjak, 6/27)

Reuters: U.S. Senate Republicans Release Changes To Healthcare Proposal
U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday released changes to their healthcare bill, including a six-month waiting period for people who have let their insurance coverage lapse for over 63 days - about two months - and want to get insured again. (Cornwell, 6/26)

The Washington Post: Senate Leaders Try To Bolster GOP Health-Care Bill With Incentive For Consumers To Stay Insured
The change, intended to satisfy insurers and minimize the number of Americans who may drop their plans if the bill becomes law, received measured praise from some industry officials but sharp criticism from patient advocates. The move — the first in a series of changes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) plans to make in the next few days — underscores the degree to which Republicans need to retool their health bill if they hope to pass it this week. (Eilperin and Sullivan, 6/26)

The Mercury News: Senate Health Care Proposal More Expensive For Bay Area Residents 
Health care costs for Bay Area residents who buy their insurance on the individual market would be more expensive under the Senate’s plan to replace the Affordable Care Act compared to the GOP House plan, according to new county level projections of premiums and tax credits by the Menlo Park-based Kaiser Family Foundation. As the GOP majority Senate prepares to vote this week to dismantle Obamacare, estimates of how much a person buying their own insurance would have to pay in 2020 under the Senate replacement bill compared to Obamacare show that in some counties, Bay Area residents would lose up to four times as much in tax credits under the Senate plan versus the Republican-led House plan, which passed on May 4. (Seipel, 6/26)

KQED: Californians Contemplate ‘Unthinkable Choices’ If GOP Health Plan Becomes Law
People in the state’s health industry, from advocates to clinic directors, were left reeling by the new CBO report, which estimated the Senate Republican health plan would create an additional 22 million uninsured Americans by 2026. ... The Republican bill would radically cut federal funding for Medicaid, even more deeply than what was proposed in the House bill. (Feibel, 6/26)

Sacramento Bee: Why Universal Health Care Died In California
The authors of Senate Bill 562, Democrats Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins, didn’t include a way to pay for the far-reaching legislation, which was estimated to cost $400 billion to start... So when Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a policy wonk who says he supports universal health care, announced late Friday he was holding the bill in committee, he merely expedited the inevitable. (Cadelago and Luna, 6/27)

Los Angeles Times: California Assembly Leader Anthony Rendon's Decision To Shelve Single-Payer Healthcare Angers Progressive Activists 
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon’s abrupt decision Friday to sideline a bill that would have established single-payer healthcare in California roused a swift and fiery backlash from the measure’s supporters, who accused the Democrat from Paramount of unilaterally blunting the effort for sweeping overhaul of the state’s healthcare system... But the move to shelve the bill — and the ensuing fury — led other powerful Democrats, including Gov. Jerry Brown and leaders of Planned Parenthood of California and major labor unions, to applaud Rendon for slowing down a measure that was long on enthusiastic supporters but short on key policy specifics — most significantly, how to pay for it. (Mason, 6/26)

KQED: California Dems Continue Single-Payer Blame Game
The California Nurses Association lashed out at Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who announced on Friday that the single-payer legislation would not advance in the Assembly in 2017. Rendon hit back on Monday, criticizing the legislation that passed the Senate earlier this month. (Marzorati, 6/26)

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Rady Children's Hospital Gains In National Rankings
For the first time, Rady Children’s Hospital has ascended to the top tier for two specialties, according to the nation’s best-known rankings report for pediatric medical centers. The San Diego institution kept its perennial high spot for orthopedics — No. 3 — and jumped by double digits to a new perch at No. 5 for newborn services, said U.S. News & World Report, which released its “Best Children’s Hospitals” document Monday night. While Rady Children’s has never made the publication’s honor roll, which is reserved for the Top 10 pediatric hospitals in the United States, it was among the 24 sites that achieved a Top 50 ranking in every category of the report this year. Those specialties included cancer, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, pulmonology and urology. (Sisson, 6/26)

USA Today: Best Children's Hospitals Ranked By U.S. News & World Report
An annual report by U.S. News & World Report ranks the nation's top 50 children's medical centers by 10 pediatric categories including cancer, neurology, diabetes and endocrinology. U.S. News has ranked children's hospitals since 2006, and awards rankings based on measures such as clinical outcomes, patient volume, staffing adequacy and compliance with best practices, to name a few. (Bowerman, 6/27)

KQED: Up To 40 Percent Of Seniors Are Significantly Lonely. Can Tech Help?
As baby boomers head into their 60s and 70s, advocacy groups are now exploring the benefits of this kind of tech education for seniors. Prime candidates are elderly people who live in rural areas, are estranged or live far from family, or have health or mobility problems that make it difficult to get around. (Platoni, 6/26)

KPCC: LA County's Urgent Care Clinics Slow To Adopt Opioid Guidelines 
Amid a national epidemic of prescription opioid abuse, urgent care clinics in Los Angeles County have been slow to adopt guidelines designed to combat over-prescription and abuse of the powerful pain medications. Last summer, officials with the L.A. County Department of Public Health announced that 80 urgent care clinics had adopted the guidelines. Despite a campaign to increase that number, only 11 more clinics signed on over the past year, according to Dr. Joel Hyatt, one of the leaders of the effort, a collaboration of the county, health insurers and medical providers called Safe Med LA. (Plevin, 6/26)

In other news from across the state —

The Mercury News: Lawsuit: HR Exec Worried Cancer Survivor Had 'Chemo Brain'
An associate vice president in the human resources department at San Francisco State University told faculty she worried that an employee of the college recovering from cancer had “chemo brain,” according to a lawsuit filed last month... A statement from the university’s lawyer said the school is fighting the claims. (Deruy ,6/26)