Latest California Healthline Stories
What Medicare Part D Can — and Can’t — Teach Us About the Affordable Care Act
Increasingly, observers are cautioning: Don’t rush to judgment about the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces, because the launch of Medicare Part D was rocky, too. But comparing the two programs makes less and less sense as the weeks go by.
Assembly Member Urges Senate to Create New Committee on Aging, Long-Term Care
Assembly member Mariko Yamada (D-Davis), named Legislator of the Year by the Senior Legislature yesterday, is urging the state Senate to form a subcommittee on aging and long-term care.
Autism Advocates Disagree With Rosy Assessment of Healthy Families Transition
The Department of Health Care Services director’s assessment that the transition of 860,000 children from Healthy Families to Medi-Cal managed care has gone pretty well drew a strong response from autism advocates.
For Californians Who Can Afford It, Autism Coverage Should Improve Under ACA
Low-income and Medi-Cal families still face struggles getting autism coverage, but under the Affordable Care Act, autism treatment will be covered in health insurance policies sold in the state’s new exchange, Covered California.
Exchange Wants Covered California Days
Every California citizen needs health coverage and every California city needs a day to celebrate that, according to a new plan from the state’s health benefit exchange.
Exchange Officials Address ‘Glitchy’ Start
At the first meeting of the health benefit exchange board since Covered California’s enrollment effort launched, officials evaluated many facets of the rollout, including the “glitchy beginning.”
Cities, Counties Helping Covered California
Along with thousands of people hired to help Californians enroll for health insurance in the new statewide marketplace, some city and county governments are joining the effort “because it’s the right thing to do.”
Medi-Cal Transition ‘Lessons Learned’
An Assembly health committee hearing yesterday examined the long list of current and pending Medi-Cal managed care transitions with the goal of correcting missteps of the past and avoiding new ones in the future.
Obamacare Mandates: Why the Fairness Debate Doesn’t Matter
In a “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” interview, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius found herself unable to rebuff the host’s frequent questions about whether it is fair to delay the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate but not its individual mandate. Health experts have weighed in, but is such a debate necessary at this point?
State Agency’s Penalty Check Payout for Late Hearings Climbs Above $2.7 Million
More than a thousand Californians successfully appealed a move to exclude them from Community Based Adult Services care, and the state’s delay in processing those hearings cost millions of dollars in penalties.