MORE ON: health reform

Even as the U.S. House of Representatives voted to strip funding from the nation’s health reform law yesterday, California lawmakers were advancing bills meant to implement parts of the law early and make sure people are alerted to new benefits as they become available. Three bills would... + read more

A prominent California health advocacy group issued a report yesterday lauding the changes ushered in by federal health reform and highlighting a slate of legislation that would support and strengthen its effect in California. The law has improved access to health insurance coverage to... + read more

Attorney General Kamala Harris joined forces today with eight other Democratic attorney generals who plan to back the White House in upholding the federal health reform law, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court. Harris and the other top law enforcement officials from New York, Oregon,... + read more

Medi-Cal could cover as many as 10.5 million Californians by 2019 because of expanded eligibility and enrollment under federal health reform, according to a report released yesterday by an independent research group. More than 7 million Californians are currently enrolled in Medi-Cal, the... + read more

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office released a long list of signed and vetoed bills Friday, and among the losers was a measure to regulate health insurance for pets. As I wrote in August, the bill would have required pet health insurers to tell consumers about co-pay amounts, lifetime... + read more

California lawmakers busy hammering out details of health care reform for humans also threw a bone to dogs and cats, advancing a bill that would regulate pet health insurance. Little of the brokering that surrounded human health reform was evident yesterday morning when the bill sailed out of... + read more