Latest California Healthline Stories
Exchange Updates Price Reducer
Covered California premium rates will rise by an average of 4% across the state next year — but each individual consumer may be able to significantly lower that number by using an updated shop-and-compare tool.
Exchange Set To Reveal Premium Rates
About 1.3 million Californians will see a change in Covered California’s health plan rates expected to be announced today. The question is: How much?
Bill in Congress Affects Foster Kids Here
When California former foster children move to another state, their health coverage could disappear unless a new proposal passes in Congress.
Future of Children’s Program Up in Air
Children’s health advocates are wary of the state’s plans to redesign the California Children’s Services program with a managed care model.
Stanford Study Finds Fault With Tobacco Testimony of Six Physicians
A new report from Stanford researchers finds “systematic bias” in the court presentations of half a dozen medical specialists who testify on behalf of tobacco companies.
‘Visionary’ Pilot Targets Palliative Care
Instead of simply extending hospice services to palliative patients, a rural pilot program is using telemedicine and team training in a different approach.
Special Session Allows an End-Around; Tobacco Bills Avoid G.O. Committee
In an unusual move, legislative leaders moved tobacco regulation proposals to the California Legislature’s special session on health, circumventing the Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization that had scuttled two of them.
Children’s Services May Get Extra Year Before Move to Managed Care Starts
The California Senate Committee on Health approved a bill calling for a one-year delay in the plan to move Medi-Cal children with rare and complicated diseases into managed care plans.
Two Tobacco Bills Go In, None Remain
Legislation to regulate electronic cigarettes and a second bill to change the age limit for tobacco buyers failed to move forward yesterday in the Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization.
E-Cigarette Bill’s Next Stop: Committee Known for Killing Tobacco Legislation
UC-San Francisco researchers say the California Assembly’s relatively obscure Committee on Governmental Organization has a history of severely amending or holding anti-tobacco legislation.