President Donald Trump signs an executive order at the White House on May 12. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) During his first administration, President Donald Trump’s top health officials gave ...

Sharissa Derricott outside of her parents’ home in Lawton, Okla., Derricott has had multiple surgeries and experiences side effects stemming from a hormone treatment given her as a child. (Nick Oxford ...

SACRAMENTO — Nearly three years after California started fining residents who don’t have health insurance, the state has not distributed any of the revenue it has collected, KHN has learned — money ...

SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...

Ambulances line up at the emergency department of Children's Health of Orange County in Orange, California. (Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) Last year, Jennifer Reisz’s college-age daughter, Megan, ...

Disability rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn California’s physician-assisted death law, arguing that recent changes make it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t ...

California this year took the final step in opening Medi-Cal, its Medicaid program, to every eligible resident regardless of immigration status. It’s a significant expansion for an already massive ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at East Los Angeles College on Feb. 26 in Monterey Park, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed that California roll back ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. California’s cities and counties will be barred from adopting soda taxes for ...

Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. California insurance regulators announced Tuesday that they have ...

SAN DIEGO — Sporting a bright smile and the polished Super Bowl ring he won as a star NFL player in the late 1980s, Craig McEwen doesn’t fit the archetype of someone teetering on the brink of ...

Physician assistant Daniel Speller, who works for a new nonprofit medical group called Healthcare in Action, treats a leg wound on Robert Smith, who is homeless in Long Beach. (Angela Hart/KFF Health ...