Latest California Healthline Stories
California Businesses Welcome ACA Delay
California’s business community welcomed a one-year delay for an Affordable Care Act provision requiring large employers to provide health insurance for workers.
The Employer Mandate Debate Doesn’t Matter. Here’s What Does.
Republicans’ latest gambit to fight Obamacare by attacking the employer mandate is getting national headlines. But the one-year delay for the mandate is one of the least-interesting things happening to employer-based health care.
Licensing Home Health Care Workers May Not Be as Simple as It First Appears
Ken Erman of RX Staffing and Home Care in Sacramento, Jennifer Gabales of the California Association for Health Services at Home, Pat McGinnis of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform and Gary Passmore of the California Congress of Seniors spoke with California Healthline about the legislative effort to regulate home health workers in California.
Sorting Out Dozens of Health Care Bills — Some Passed, Some Pending
Like detritus carried down a swollen river after a big rainstorm, hundreds of bills were floated in Sacramento during the last session — including many dozens of health care-related bills. Here are some of the bigger ones that made it to dry land and a number of others that sunk.
Retail Clinic Growth Sparks New Partnership in San Diego
As full implementation of the Affordable Care Act fast approaches and concerns over primary care shortages grow, a new partnership in San Diego illustrates California’s growing reliance on retail clinics to increase access to health care.
Pharmacists: ‘We’re Providers, Too’
When people think of reforming the health care system, they should include pharmacists in the equation, according to pharmacy experts who gathered for a conference this week in Sacramento.
Assistants Could Do More Under Proposed Bill
If medical assistants could do more, then physician assistants could do more, and that would free primary care physicians to do more. That’s the theory behind a bill that won committee approval yesterday in the California Assembly and now heads to a floor vote.
Agricultural Giant Takes Lead in Keeping Workers Healthy
Paramount Agribusinesses, a large fruit and nut grower in the Central Valley, offers no-cost primary health care to its employees and their families in an effort to increase productivity and improve the health of workers.
How Do California Small Business Owners Feel About ACA?
In the wake of a Gallup poll showing that almost half of the country’s small business owners predict the Affordable Care Act will be bad for business, we asked stakeholders to assess the mood in California. The new state health exchange is scheduled to announce insurers and premiums for the “SHOP” small business exchange early next month.
School Nurses Case to Supreme Court
The California Supreme Court today will hear oral arguments about the safety and well-being of schoolchildren with diabetes. The case centers on school nurses, but nursing leaders say it could set precedent for the practice of nursing in California.
Cash-strapped school districts across the state have laid off school nurses, creating a dilemma for diabetic children who need insulin shots during school hours.
The state has argued that non-medical personnel can administer the shots. State officials say requiring nurses to do the job endangers children’s ready access to insulin injections and puts their health at risk.