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Doctors Trying to Prescribe Abortion Pills Across State Lines Stymied by Legislation

By Rachel Bluth April 5, 2022

Some doctors are getting licensed in multiple states so they can use telemedicine and mail-order pharmacies to provide medication abortions to more women. At the same time, states are cracking down on telemedicine abortions, blunting the efforts of out-of-state doctors.

Want Vulnerable Californians to Have Healthier Pregnancies? Doulas Say the State Must Pay Up.

By Rachel Bluth March 14, 2022

California was supposed to start paying doulas this year to help Medicaid enrollees have healthy pregnancies. But the benefit has been delayed because doulas feel lowballed by the state’s proposed reimbursement rate, which is below what most other states pay.

Buffy Wicks Turns Her Health History Into Legislation

By Rachel Bluth January 18, 2022

Assembly member who represents Oakland, is digging into abortion, vaccines and homelessness and drawing on her own health care experiences as she drafts bills.

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Finally, a Fix for the ‘Family Glitch’

April 7, 2022

President Joe Biden welcomed former President Barack Obama back to the White House this week to announce a new policy for the Affordable Care Act that would make subsidies available to more families with unaffordable employer coverage. Meanwhile, Congress struggled to find a compromise for continued federal funding of covid-19 vaccines, testing, and treatments. Tami Luhby of CNN, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.

With Sexually Transmitted Infections Off the Charts, California Pushes At-Home Tests

By Rachel Bluth January 4, 2022

A new law makes California the first state to require that health insurance plans, including Medicaid, cover home STI tests. But some details still need to be worked out.

Con récord de infecciones de transmisión sexual, California impulsa las pruebas caseras

By Rachel Bluth January 4, 2022

California se ha convertido en el primer estado en exigir que los seguros médicos cubran las pruebas caseras para infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) como el VIH, la clamidia y la sífilis.

As Many States Plan to Ban Abortion if ‘Roe’ Falls, California Moves to Protect It

By Sarah Varney and Rachel Bluth May 3, 2022

If the Supreme Court affirms the leaked draft decision and overturns abortion rights, the effects would be sweeping in states where Republican-led legislatures have been eagerly awaiting the repudiation of a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy. In deep-blue California, Democratic lawmakers propose codifying the right to abortion in the state constitution.

Battle Lines Are Drawn Over California Deal With Kaiser Permanente

By Bernard J. Wolfson April 18, 2022

A controversial proposal to grant HMO giant Kaiser Permanente a no-bid statewide Medi-Cal contract is headed for its first legislative hearing amid vocal opposition from a coalition of counties, competing health plans, community clinics, and a national health care labor union.

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Florida Limits Abortion — For Now

April 4, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court handed down dual abortion rulings this week. One said voters will be allowed to decide in November whether to create a state right to abortion. The other ruling, though, allows a 15-week ban to take effect immediately — before an even more sweeping, six-week ban replaces it in May. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is doubling down on his administration’s health care accomplishments as he kicks off his general election campaign. Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins University schools of nursing and public health, and Tami Luhby of CNN join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews health care analyst Jeff Goldsmith about the growing size and influence of UnitedHealth Group in the wake of the Change Healthcare hack.

California Plans for a Post-Roe World as Abortion Access Shrinks Elsewhere

By Rachel Bluth November 16, 2021

While other states dramatically restrict abortion and the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court weighs Roe v. Wade, California is preparing to absorb the country’s abortion patients.

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