Hit by Higher Prices for Gear, Doctors and Dentists Want Insurers to Pay
By Rachel Bluth
The costs of personal protective equipment and disinfecting offices while seeing fewer patients have some doctors and dentists demanding that insurance companies step up.
After a Deadly Year on the Roads, States Push for Safety Over Speed
By Rachel Bluth
Lawmakers in California and other states are rethinking how they set and enforce speed limits, and they’re proposing to hand more power to local authorities to slow drivers in their communities.
Tras un año mortal en las carreteras, los estados dicen sí a la seguridad y no a la velocidad
By Rachel Bluth
Legisladores de California y otros estados se replantean cómo establecer y hacer cumplir los límites de velocidad, y proponen darle más poder a las jurisdicciones locales para frenar a los conductores en sus comunidades.
Tras un año mortal en las carreteras, los estados dicen sí a la seguridad y no a la velocidad
By Rachel Bluth
Legisladores de California y otros estados se replantean cómo establecer y hacer cumplir los límites de velocidad, y proponen darle más poder a las jurisdicciones locales para frenar a los conductores en sus comunidades.
Must-Reads Of The Week
By Rachel Bluth
Easy-breezy guest writer Rachel Bluth fills you in on a healthy dose of news from this past week.
Journalists Weigh In on Biden’s HHS Pick
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Community Clinics Shouldered Much of the Vaccine Rollout. Many Haven’t Been Paid.
By Rachana Pradhan and Rachel Bluth
Federally qualified health centers from California to Michigan are mired in a bureaucratic mess over how they should be paid under Medicaid for each dose of covid vaccine given. In California alone, clinics await reimbursement for at least 1 million shots, causing a “massive cash flow problem.”
For Counties and Clinics, Blue Shield Takeover of Vaccination Task Fixes What Wasn’t Broken
By Rachel Bluth
Rural Mendocino County had finally figured out its vaccination program. But now the community clinics that helped make it happen are changing course as Blue Shield of California takes over the state vaccine program.
Newsom’s Big Promises on Drug Prices Are Slow to Materialize
By Angela Hart and Rachel Bluth and Samantha Young
Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched several initiatives to cut rising drug prices, but the savings haven’t been as monumental as he promised. And his plan to have California make its own generic drugs hasn’t gotten off the ground.
Newsom’s Record on Covid Is Both an Advantage and Liability in Tight Recall Race
By Rachel Bluth and Samantha Young and Heidi de Marco and Angela Hart
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic policies are effectively on California’s Sept. 14 recall ballot — and the electorate views them with a mix of resentment, gratitude and disillusionment.