The California Wellness Foundation poll found that nearly 80% of voters are worried by the cost of health care. Mental health access is a worry too – and immigration is worsening the problem.

To save more than $5 billion, the California governor wants to shut down new enrollment for adults who lack legal status and charge premiums. The Legislature has resisted such changes.

Potential cuts to Medicaid have Californians bracing for changes that could weaken recent gains in mental health care and addiction treatment.

California is spending billions more than planned for Medi-Cal. Some of the cost drivers include higher enrollment among immigrants without legal status as well as pharmacy costs.

California is spending billions more than expected on Medi-Cal for coverage expansions that benefit immigrant households.

Almost 15 million Californians have health care coverage through Medi-Cal, a program that stands to lose billions of dollars if Republicans follow through on proposed cuts.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders threatened to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, including California. ICE can still arrest and deport undocumented people living in California.

More than 50 California hospitals stopped delivering babies in the past decade, limiting maternity care options in both rural and urban communities.

Hundreds of thousands of California health care workers expect to get a raise under a new law that sets a higher minimum wage for them. The law has a number of variables, including when it will actually take effect.

A higher minimum wage for health care workers takes effect in two weeks, but Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to delay it because of the state budget deficit.

Almost 30 years ago Californians passed Proposition 187, a ballot measure that denied public benefits to undocumented immigrants. This year, a new state law took effect offering government-subsidized health insurance to the same population.

California is undertaking an ambitious effort to improve mental health, while controversy surrounds how to address the fentanyl crisis.

The federal government suspended an annual Medicaid renewal requirement during COVID-19. Now that it has resumed, many Californians are losing coverage for procedural reasons.

Gov. Gavin Newsom had made lowering the cost of prescription drugs a signature health care issue, but over the weekend he rejected a bill that would have provided some relief for diabetics.

The iconic California burger chain known for its not-so-secret menu and cups printed with Bible verses banned its employees in five states from wearing masks at work, except California and Oregon.

The California Nurses Association, which led the coalition behind the high-profile 2017 push for a single-payer system, has re-branded its campaign with the slogan “Fight to Win Medicare-for-All."