By Jon Ortiz
jortiz@sacbee.com
01/26/2015 7:31 AM
After years of making concessions to Gov. Jerry Brown, California labor leaders had hoped that the fourth-and-final-term Democrat finally would be in a giving mood.
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By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
01/16/2015 10:44 PM
Last year, after the Food and Drug Administration approved a breakthrough new drug for hepatitis C, health officials around the country warned of dire consequences for state budgets.
By Maura Dolan
January 14, 2015
A Sacramento federal judge prepares to decide whether to downgrade marijuana, but ruling’s reach is limited
By Jim Steinberg, San Bernardino Sun
Posted: 01/11/15, 5:23 PM PST |
COLTON >> Contract negotiations between county officials and its nursing union have resumed, officials said.
Filed under: Budget, County of San Bernardino, Finance, Healthcare, In the News, Local Government, Unions
Jerry Brown
By Jon Ortiz
jortiz@sacbee.com
01/09/2015 11:38 PM
Gov. Jerry Brown says he wants state workers to begin contributing toward their retiree health benefits and that he will take up the issue at the bargaining table beginning this year.
By Chris Megerian
January 9, 2015
The state’s mountain of medical bills threatens to undermine Gov. Jerry Brown’s fiscal goals
This is the first year people without health insurance could face big penalties. (Getty Images)
January 8, 2015 | 11:40 AM
By April Dembosky
Most days in early January, tax preparation offices are dead. Most people won’t get their W-2 or other tax documents until later this month.
Supervisor testifies before panel on much debated sale
SHEA JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
Posted Jan. 5, 2015 @ 5:40 pm
Updated Jan 5, 2015 at 5:42 PM
Testifying before a state Attorney General’s panel Monday in Lynwood, San Bernardino County 1st District Supervisor Robert Lovingood expressed support for Ontario-based Prime Healthcare’s proposed acquisition of six struggling nonprofit hospitals.
By Susan Abram, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 01/03/15, 5:01 PM PST |
Dozens of hospitals across Southern California will see their federal reimbursements reduced this year for not meeting standards to keep Medicare patients safe and infection free.
By Stuart Pfeifer
January 1, 2014
Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris is jumping into a heated battle over the purchase of six struggling nonprofit Catholic medical centers in California by the fast-growing Ontario hospital chain Prime Healthcare Services Inc.
Spending bill provision forbids federal government from cracking down on Inland medical marijuana
Published: December 25, 201
Updated: December 26, 2014 – 10:49 a.m.
Buried in the $1.1 trillion, 1,603-page federal spending bill approved by Congress earlier this month is a little relief for medical marijuana advocates such as Jim Camper.
The spending package contains language forbidding federal agencies from using their resources to go after medical marijuana in states where it is legal.
To read story by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By Bob Egelko
Published: Monday, December 22, 2014
In a sharp reversal of federal drug policy, Congress has prohibited the Justice Department from interfering with laws in California and other states that allow the medical use of marijuana. And the turnabout caught the immediate attention of federal judges, who want to know its impact on some recent criminal convictions under the federal law that classifies pot as one of the most dangerous drugs.
By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times
Monday, December 22, 2014
Republicans say they have the will to bring down Obamacare — and many are eyeing a little-known, little-used budget too called “reconciliation” to do so.
Under a provision in the spending bill passed by Congress over the weekend, states where medical marijuana is legal would no longer need to worry about federal drug agents raiding retail operations. Agents would be prohibited from doing so.
By Evan Halper
December 16, 2014
‘The first time in decades that the federal government has curtailed its oppressive prohibition of marijuana’
By Joe Nelson, The Sun
Posted: 12/15/14, 9:13 PM PST | Updated: 15 secs ago
About 30 nurses from Arrowhead Regional Medical Center will address the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Tuesday following a two-day strike last week in protest of low pay and poor working conditions.
Saturday, December 13, 2014 – 11:45 a.m.
The California Nurses Association (CNA), successfully and legally, pulled off a two-day walkout at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center this week.
By Josh Richman
Thursday, December 11th, 2014 at 12:34 pm
Rep. Mike Honda and Rep. Zoe Lofgren led 16 other California House members Thursday in urging California Attorney General Kamala Harris to reject the sale of six Daughters of Charity Health System hospitals to a for-profit company they say has a history of unfair business practices.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 – 04:00 p.m.
A California appellate court has refused to intervene in a ongoing two-day strike by San Bernardino County Nurses.
By Jim Steinberg, The Sun
Posted: 12/09/14, 9:56 AM PST | Updated: 59 secs ago
COLTON >> Hundreds of county nurses did not show up for work Tuesday as the nurses union began a two-day strike, demanding higher wages and protesting working conditions.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 – 10:30 a.m.
In San Bernardino County’s pocket?
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 – 10:00 a.m.
A two day strike by more than 1,000 San Bernardino County nurses is being felt across the Inland Empire with emergency and other patients being deferred to other area hospitals.
SHEA JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
Posted Dec. 8, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
Updated Dec 8, 2014 at 5:21 PM
VICTORVILLE — Prime Healthcare CEO Dr. Prem Reddy said Monday that the fifth-largest hospital system in the U.S. plans to go public in the next two to three years.
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell talks to local lawmakers behind closed doors during a news conference at the Warren County Courthouse in Bowling Green, Ky., Friday, June 17, 2011. McConnell is disputing the Justice Department’s defense of prosecuting terrorism suspects in Kentucky, saying the case is unique. McConnell wants the two Iraqis tried in Guantanamo Bay rather than in civilian court in Kentucky. (AP Photo/Daily News, Joe Imel)
Behind closed doors, Republicans are plotting one last tilt at the Affordable Care Act.
By Jennifer Haberkorn and Manu Raju
12/8/14 8:15 PM EST
In high-level strategy sessions on Capitol Hill, Republicans are going through reams of historical information and sitting through marathon slide show presentations, trying to figure out how to gut Obamacare through a complicated budget process that requires only a simple majority — a sign of how seriously they’re taking their best shot yet at dealing a long-term blow to the health care law.
Monday, December 8, 2014 – 11:00 a.m.
A San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge has refused to block a planned strike by county-employed nurses set for Tuesday and Wednesday.
BloombergPolitics: By the Numbers: Half of the Senators Who Voted for Obamacare Will be Gone in 2015
An under-the-hood look at the best showing in Senate elections
by either party in 34 years.
Greg Giroux
Dec 7, 2014 3:17 PM PST
Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy’s double-digit ousting of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu on Saturday was, in the words of the senator-elect, an “exclamation mark” on a 2014 election that saw the Republicans win control of the Senate. With Landrieu’s departure, only half of the Senators who voted to pass the Affordable Care Act will still be in office in 2015, when the new members are sworn in.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Elections, Healthcare, In the News, Politics, Republicans, U.S. Government, U.S. Senate
Sunday, December 7, 2014 – 10:00 a.m.
San Bernardino County’s labor relations continues down the path of obstruction and disharmony.
Friday, December 5, 2014 – 03:30 p.m.
A San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge has denied a request for an injunction prohibiting a two-day walk out of the county’s 1,100 nurses.
By Jim Steinberg, The Sun
Posted: 12/04/14, 5:28 PM PST | Updated: 28 secs ago
San Bernardino County officials are seeking to block a planned strike by its 1,100 member nurses union, saying a two-day event next week “could cost taxpayers millions of dollars” if the county is forced to hire temporary nurses.
By Chad Terhune
December 2, 2014
Nearly four in 10 Californians say the state’s health exchange isn’t working well as the second open enrollment gets underway, a new survey shows.
Sarah Hurtubise, Reporter
11/28/2014 – 2:48 PM
One in three Americans has put off seeking medical treatment in 2014 due to high costs, according to Gallup — the highest percentage since Gallup began asking the question in 2001.
By Jim Steinberg, The Sun
Posted: 11/26/14, 4:40 PM PST |
About 1,200 nurses employed by the county of San Bernardino will strike Dec. 9 and 10 because 14 months of contract negotiations have yielded no progress, officials of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United said Wednesday.
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By Amanda Becker
WASHINGTON Fri Nov 21, 2014 11:27am EST
(Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday filed a long-anticipated lawsuit challenging the implementation of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law over employer-based coverage and payments to insurers, according to court documents.
Kaiser Permanente covers 7.3 million Californians. A company official said the HMO’s rate hikes for employers are running slightly below the 5% trend nationally and in California. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
By Chad Terhune
November 19, 2014
Southern California employers expect their health-benefit costs to rise 4.8% next year as the economy recovers and mandates under the federal health law kick in, a new survey shows.
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Monday, November 17, 2014 – 08:45 a.m.
Obamacare. The Gift that keeps on giving!
My last story on Obamacare isn’t even a week old and already there’s another controversy.
By Dan Keating and Jason Millman
November 15, 2014 at 6:59 PM
People shopping on the HealthCare.gov marketplace that reopened Saturday have more options this year than they did last year, but the options usually will be costlier.
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By Jon Ortiz
jortiz@sacbee.com
11/14/2014 1:44 PM
CalPERS has dropped health coverage for nearly 9,000 people over the last year after a sweeping audit revealed they weren’t eligible for benefits received through state-worker and state-retiree health plans.
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By Kevin Drawbaugh
Wed Nov 12, 2014 – 6:53pm EST
Washington–
(Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress will soon move to kill a medical device tax imposed less than two years ago under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, congressional aides and analysts said on Wednesday.
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Filed under: Business, Healthcare, In the News, Politics, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
Individual party members are refloating their proposals, but leadership isn’t going to push forward on any of them.
By Sam Baker
November 12, 2014
Republicans’ pledge to “repeal and replace” Obamacare will never die, and yet it is not really alive. It is the undead—and it has risen again.
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Filed under: Healthcare, In the News, Politics, Republicans, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 – 11:00 a.m.
Over a year ago we correctly said the Affordable care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, would single-handedly undermine Democrat chances in the 2014 midterm elections. The pocketbook issue was raised by every Republican candidate in every contested U.S. Senate race, and it worked. Democrats were routed at the polls.
Now brace for round number two!
The court to rule on on whether low- and middle-income Americans may receive subsidies in two-thirds of the states to make insurance more affordable. (Associated Press)
Court ot rule on healthcare law again
By David G. Savage
November 7, 2014
The Supreme Court will decide the fate of President Obama’s healthcare law yet again, this time ruling on whether low- and middle-income Americans may receive subsidies in two-thirds of the states to make insurance more affordable.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Courts, Healthcare, In the News, Legal, U.S. Government, U.S. Supreme Court
By Ed Silverman
Associated Press
October 20, 2014
Last month, CVS Health {CVS +0.83%} purged its 7,700 pharmacies of tobacco products in a gambit to embrace a commitment to improving public health and generate goodwill. But the move comes with a price – an estimated $2 billion in annual sales will be sacrificed.
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Friday, October 24, 2014 – 08:00 p.m.
We’ve been saying it for a year that the President’s healthcare law would impact this years electoral contests..
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By Jim Miller
jmiller@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 – 12:00 am
Last Modified: Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 – 8:42 am
The group backing a health insurance rate-control measure on next month’s ballot called on Attorney General Kamala Harris on Monday to investigate millions of dollars in no-bid contracts by Covered California and reported links between the health exchange’s executives and and the insurance industry.
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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press
Oct. 12, 2014 – 07:35 a.m.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s health insurance exchange has awarded $184 million in contracts without the competitive bidding and oversight that is standard practice across state government, including deals that sent millions of dollars to a firm whose employees have long-standing ties to the agency’s executive director.
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By Chad Terhune
October 10, 2014
Escalating its battle with organized labor, Prime Healthcare Services Inc. reached a deal to acquire six nonprofit Catholic hospitals in California, including St. Vincent and St. Francis medical centers in Los Angeles County.
By RACHAEL BADE | 10/9/14 11:58 AM EDT Updated: 10/9/14 12:57 PM EDT
There are dozens of ways to escape Obamacare’s individual mandate tax — but good luck figuring that out come tax season.
By Bradley J. Fikes
Oct. 9, 2014
Ebola drug maker Mapp Biopharmaceutical is working on several fronts to increase supplies of the potentially life-saving medicine as fast as possible, Mapp’s chief executive, Kevin Whaley, said Thursday.
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Wal-Mart said Tuesday it will end healthcare benefits for some part-time workers.
By Andrew Khouri
October 7, 2014
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is cutting healthcare benefits for roughly 30,000 part-time employees, citing rising costs.
Officials don’t find Covered California rates unreasonable
By Chad Terhune
October 3, 2014
California regulators won’t challenge the next round of health insurance rate increases in the state exchange, but insurers’ narrow networks of doctors and hospitals are drawing tougher scrutiny.
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By Christopher Cadelago
ccadelago@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Sep. 23, 2014 – 9:00 pm
The Affordable Care Act continues to divide Californians, who remain skeptical four years after its passage despite the state’s relatively smooth launch in which more than 1.2 million people enrolled in health insurance coverage.
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Filed under: Campaigns, Democrats, Elections, Healthcare, In the News, Jerry Brown, Politics, Polls, Republicans, State of California, Water Resources
By Joe Nelson, The Sun
Posted: 09/16/14, 9:49 PM PDT |
RIVERSIDE >> Supervisors from Riverside and San Bernardino counties agreed Tuesday to form a committee to plan strategies to tackle the Affordable Care Act, prison realignment and the future of L.A./Ontario International Airport.
By Chad Terhune
September 16, 2014
Taking aim at HMO giant Kaiser Permanente, insurer Anthem Blue Cross is joining forces with several big-name hospitals and their doctors to create an unusual health plan option for employers in Southern California.
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BY JEFF HORSEMAN / STAFF WRITER
Published: Sept. 9, 2014 Updated: Sept. 10, 2014 11:18 a.m.
After several years of deficits and financial struggles, Riverside County Regional Medical Center should have a balanced budget this fiscal year, the county-run hospital’s interim CEO said Tuesday.
To read story by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
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Filed under: Board of Supervisors - Riverside County, Budget, County of Riverside, Finance, Healthcare, In the News
By Joe Nelson, The Sun
Posted: 09/09/14, 9:55 AM PDT | Updated: 47 secs ago
SAN BERNARDINO >> Nurses for Arrowhead Regional Medical Center and other San Bernardino County facilities protested Tuesday outside the county Government Center, alleging static labor negotiations between the California Nurses Association and the county are jeopardizing patient safety.
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By JUDY LIN Associated Press
Sept. 9, 2014 – 01:44 p.m.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Some Californians who purchased individual health coverage through the state’s insurance exchange are suddenly being dropped or transferred to Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid program for the poor that fewer doctors and providers accept.
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The hack is not expected to affect the start of the second enrollment period.
By BRETT NORMAN | 9/4/14 5:00 PM EDT Updated: 9/4/14 8:36 PM EDT
The HealthCare.gov insurance portal succumbed to a cyberattack this summer, the government said Thursday, prompting an eruption of GOP finger-pointing and demands for hearings into the administration’s security policies for the site, where millions of Americas have registered to purchase insurance.
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August 29, 2014 | 12:03 PM | By state of health
By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News
Consumers getting government subsidies for health insurance who are later found ineligible for those payments will owe the government, but not necessarily the full amount, according to the Treasury Department.
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BY EMILY BAZAR / CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST
Published: Aug. 26, 2014 Updated: Aug. 27, 2014 8:01 a.m.
A worrisome trend is emerging among some Californians who thought they were safe and secure under Covered California: Their plans are being canceled without consent and sometimes without notice.
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By Chad Terhune
August 21, 2014
About 100,000 Californians who haven’t yet proved their citizenship or legal residency in the U.S. face losing their Obamacare coverage in October, state officials said.
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By Christopher Cadelago
ccadelago@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 – 12:00 am
A California initiative on the fall ballot requiring that health insurance rate changes be approved by the elected insurance commissioner is receiving strong support from voters statewide, according to the latest Field Poll.
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By Chad Garland
August 15, 2014
Prime Healthcare Services Inc., a hospital chain that has come under fire for billing and patient privacy issues, is facing opposition over its potential acquisition of six California hospitals, including two medical centers in Los Angeles County.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 – 09:00 a.m.
One has to wonder.
The current scare over the Ebola virus is well taken. You know, that virus that causes out-of-control internal hemorraging and organ failure, and ultimately death in ninety-percent of those infected.
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Consumers could be hit with major price increases, without even knowing it, if they don’t switch their health care plans.
By Sam Baker
August 5, 2014
If you like your Obamacare plan, you can keep it—but you might end up paying a whole lot more.
People who decide to stick with the coverage they’ve already gotten through Obamacare, rather than switching plans, are at risk for some of the biggest premium spikes anywhere in the system. And some people won’t even know their costs went up until they get a bill from the IRS.
By LAUREN FRENCH | 7/30/14 4:44 PM EDT Updated: 7/30/14 9:38 PM EDT
The House on Wednesday approved legislation 420-5 to drastically reform the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 – 11:30 a.m.
Here’s some news flowing across the transom this Tuesday morning. In case you missed it!
Appeals court deals blow to Obamacare
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled subsidies paid under The Affordable Care Act in states where no exchanges exist are illegal. Meanwhile, within hours, a Virginia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled exactly the opposite.
Filed under: County of San Bernardino, Courts, Economy, Finance, Healthcare, Pensions, Politics, State Superior Court
By Christopher Cadelago
ccadelago@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Jul. 9, 2014 – 4:58 pm
California’s dominant healthcare union has taken the “extraordinary” step of requesting that elected officials refrain from accepting political contributions from an Ontario-based hospital chain and its chief executive.
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By JUDY LIN
Associated Press
July 1, 2014
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s marketplace for buying individual health insurance often failed to verify important personal information and resolve discrepancies in applications, a critical process in determining if people are eligible for taxpayer subsidies, a federal watchdog said Tuesday.
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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
June 30, 2014
Thanks to high birth and immigration rates over the last several decades, California has one of the nation’s lowest proportions of over-65 residents – but it also has one of its higher elderly growth rates, a new Census Bureau report reveals.
Jun 30, 11:30 AM EDT
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.
Tom DiCioccio of Oceanside owes nearly $20,000 for his cancer surgery this year after Blue Shield switched him into a policy with fewer providers. The insurer agreed to pay his bills after The Times asked about the case.
Chad Terhune
June 28, 2014
Frustration and legal challenges over the network of doctors and hospitals for Obamacare patients have marred an otherwise successful rollout of the federal healthcare law in California.
By Helen Shen
Kaiser Health News
Posted: 06/28/2014 12:20:48 PM PDT
Updated: 06/28/2014 08:23:26 PM PDT
A mountainous backlog of Medi-Cal applications is well into its third month, but California officials have provided little information about how and when the largest such bottleneck in the nation might be cleared.
Full repeal is impossible, but the GOP could do some real damage to the Affordable Care Act.
Health Care
By Sam Baker
June 23, 2014
A Republican Senate majority wouldn’t be able to fully repeal Obamacare, but it could force some pretty significant changes to the health care law.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Campaigns, Elections, Healthcare, In the News, Politics, U.S. Government, U.S. Senate
Business Day
By ANDREW POLLACK
JUNE 20, 2014
In dealing with health plans, drug companies are facing a new imperative — bargain or be banned.
Determined to slow the rapid rise in drug prices, more health plans are refusing to cover certain drugs unless the companies charge less for them.
By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Jun. 17, 2014 – 10:25 pm
CalPERS’ health care premiums are going up again for hundreds of thousands of public employees and their families, although 40 percent of CalPERS members will see their rates decline.
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The idea is to recoup money spent on providing inmates legally required health care. Inmates can stay on Medi-Cal upon release assuming they still meet eligibility standards.
Published: May 30, 2014 Updated: 10:55 p.m.
Riverside and San Bernardino are joining the rush of California counties seeking to enroll jail inmates in a government-run health insurance program to recoup millions of dollars in medical costs.
To read story by Jeff Horseman in the Press-Enterprise, click here.
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Filed under: Budget, County of Riverside, County of San Bernardino, Finance, Healthcare, In the News
In the wake of the resignation Friday of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki over revelations of extended waits for appointments at hospitals under his direction, we examine how veterans fare when it comes to health services at local VA hospitals.
By Jim Steinberg, The Sun
Posted: 05/30/14, 8:41 PM PDT | Updated: 50 secs ago
LOMA LINDA >> Wendy Clouser of Big Bear Lake has been taking medications for post-traumatic stress disorder — one of them experimental — for two years.
By Juliet Eilperin and Ed O’Keefe
May 22, 2014
President Obama delivered a forceful defense of his veterans policies Wednesday, saying that caring for veterans and their families is “one of the causes of my presidency” and vowing to punish those responsible for long wait times and other serious problems at military medical centers.
NJ Daily
By Michael Catalini
May 21, 2014
A senior Democratic senator suggested Wednesday that President Obama’s race factored into opposition to the Affordable Care Act, sparking outrage on the part of one of his Republican colleagues.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, May. 20, 2014 – 12:00 am
Last Modified: Tuesday, May. 20, 2014 – 12:16 am
A half-century ago, a governor named Brown persuaded the California Legislature to embark on what those involved thought would be a modest new program of health care for poor Californians.
Campaign 2014
By John Tozzi May 19, 2014
Political candidates, their allies, and issue groups have spent nearly half a billion dollars on TV ads talking about the Affordable Care Act since the law was passed four years ago, according to a new analysis by Kantar Media CMAG, which tracks political ads. And for every $1 spent in support of Obamacare, $15 went to trashing it.
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By Phil Stewart and David Alexander
WASHINGTON Fri May 16, 2014 6:08pm EDT
(Reuters) – The top health official at the Department of Veterans Affairs resigned on Friday amid a scandal over allegations of deadly healthcare delays, but critics dismissed the gesture as “damage control” because he planned to retire this year anyway.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
May 15, 2014
By Christopher Cadelago
Bee Capitol Bureau
A decades-long fight among powerful California interests is finally coming before voters, as the proponents of a push to increase the sum victims can recover in medical malpractice lawsuits announced Thursday that they’ve qualified for the November ballot.
By Terry Baynes
Thu May 15, 2014 3:41pm EDT
(Reuters) – Consumers who purchased new health plans from Blue Shield of California have sued the insurer, claiming they were misled into thinking the insurance would cover their desired doctors and hospitals.
Filed under: Business, Courts, Healthcare, In the News, Legal, State of California, State Superior Court
May 5, 2014, 1:46pm PDT
Kathy Robertson
Senior Staff Writer- Sacramento Business Journal
Almost two years since the U.S. Supreme Court approved the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, the Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation gets a shot in appeals court this week at unwinding the mandate based on how it was enacted.
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Filed under: Courts, Healthcare, In the News, Legal, U.S. Government, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
By Jim Steinberg, The Sun
Posted: 05/01/14, 6:50 PM PDT |
COLTON >> More than 400 registered nurses picketed Thursday in front of Arrowhead Regional Medical Center.
“The primary issues are patient care and nursing safety,” said Jed Smith, a labor representative with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
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