Last year, the number of Californians who became unemployed
and lost their health insurance increased, bringing
the total number of uninsured state residents to 8.4 million, according to a study released on Monday by
the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the Los Angeles Times' "L.A. Now" reports. read more »
Researchers issued yet another grim statistic Monday
on the toll of the recession: 2 million additional Californians – 85,000 of them in the capital region – lost their health care coverage during the recent
economic slide.read more »
Federal regulators last month questioned California's
decision to increase premiums in Healthy Families,
California's Children's Health Insurance Program.
Whether this specific inquiry produces any direct impact,
the new scrutiny has implications for state leaders
in their effort to fill a $19 billion gap in the California budget. read more »
Dental care for children in California ranks second-worst of all states, according to the most recent report
by the National Survey of Children's Health, funded
in part by HHS.Only Texas had a worse percentage of children with
good oral health. And it is possible California's situation
could get worse.read more »
Nearly a quarter of California's children have never
seen a dentist, with black and Latino children and
those whose families lack public or private dental
insurance having the lowest rates of dental care, according
to a new study from the California Health Care Foundation and UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research.read more »
In an urgent attempt to maintain universal health coverage
for children in Santa Clara County, community leaders
are organizing a campaign to rescue one of the region's
landmark programs for working poor families.read more »
Though he was born premature with Klippel-Feil Syndrome, a rare disorder that caused two of his
neck vertebrae to be congenitally fused together, Gabriel
is healthy -- thanks in part to Healthy Kids, a private and affordable
health insurance program.read more »
One of the first provisions of the federal healthcare
overhaul — allowing young adults to stay on their parents' health
insurance until they turn 26 — is expected to make a big dent in the number of uninsured
young people this year.read more »
Starting in September, a provision of the new federal
health law will prohibit insurance companies from denying
coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.read more »
