Enrollment of underrepresented groups at medical schools fell precipitously this academic year after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ...

Newsom Asks For An Extra $2.8 Billion To Close Medicaid Hole: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is asking for an extra $2.8 billion immediately for the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, on top of a ...

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is the state’s health insurance program for Californians with low incomes, including children, people with disabilities, and seniors. Get the latest data on ...

Republicans’ moves to scale back Medicaid are leading to more misinformation about immigrants, especially Latinos, circulating on social media platforms. The misconceptions include the myths that ...

Medicaid Shortfall Raises Concerns: California lawmakers are calling for answers after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office floated a $3.44 billion loan to bail out the Medi-Cal program, bringing renewed ...

California’s Medicaid program has borrowed $3.4 billion from the state’s general fund — and will likely need even more — to cover ballooning health expenses for 15 million residents with low incomes ...

When patients walked into Planned Parenthood clinics, a consumer data company sold their precise locations to anti-abortion groups for targeted ads. This story also ran on San Francisco Chronicle. It ...

Hospital-based violence intervention programs have operated in the U.S. since the mid-1990s. The public health approach to gun violence works, by many accounts. But recent moves by the White House are ...

DENVER — Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. This story also ran on CBS News. It can be republished for free. She rushed to check on him at a ...

KFF Health News correspondent Sam Whitehead discusses Medicaid’s history and role in the U.S. health system.