Journalist Angela Hart Furnishes Framework on Homelessness in California
February 18, 2023
KFF Health News Original
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Watch: California and Feds Invest in Health Care for Homeless People
October 27, 2023
KFF Health News Original
KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart discusses big developments in street medicine, both statewide and nationally.
Listen: Inroads for Women in California’s Health Care Workforce
October 16, 2023
KFF Health News Original
KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart leads a discussion about the role women play as California grapples with a shortage of health care providers.
Watch: Big Medicaid Changes in California Leave Millions of Patients Behind
December 7, 2022
KFF Health News Original
KHN senior correspondent Angela Hart discusses how California’s big Medicaid experiment to bring social services to the sickest and costliest patients doesn’t help most patients.
Listen: Can California Lower the Price of Insulin?
July 27, 2022
KFF Health News Original
California Healthline senior correspondent Angela Hart describes California’s ambitious plan to manufacture generic insulin under the state’s new “CalRx” drug label.
Journalists Delve Into Insulin Costs and Prior Authorization Policy
March 25, 2023
KFF Health News Original
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Watch: The Politics of Health Care in California
December 2, 2022
KFF Health News Original
KHN senior correspondent Angela Hart discussed the most pressing health care issues in California with the nonpartisan group Democracy Winters in mid-November, touching on a variety of issues, from the state’s effort to transform its Medicaid program to its plan to produce generic insulin.
Journalists Reexamine Mental Health Barriers, Gun Control Laws, and Homelessness
July 23, 2022
KFF Health News Original
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
California Voters Are Skeptical That More Money Is the Answer to Homelessness
By Angela Hart
March 12, 2024
KFF Health News Original
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature ballot measure to address mental illness, addiction, and homelessness with a $6.4 billion bond and other reforms, is barely ahead in the ongoing ballot count. The slim margin reflects a growing unease among Californians over the governor’s homelessness initiatives.
Newsom’s $6.4 Billion Homelessness Gambit Hangs by a Thread
By Angela Hart
March 8, 2024
KFF Health News Original
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious attempt to combat the mental health and addiction epidemic in his state is leading by a razor-thin margin, calling into question whether voters trust him to confront the state’s growing homelessness crisis. Newsom asked voters on Tuesday to approve his $6.4 billion bond measure, dubbed “Treatment not Tents” — the […]
The Supreme Court Confronts a Public Health Challenge: Homeless Encampments
By Angela Hart
February 28, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Homelessness is a soaring public health crisis, with a record 653,000 unhoused people in the United States, according to federal estimates. Tent and recreational vehicle encampments have exploded in recent years, crowding streets and sidewalks from Portland, Ore., to New York. In California, where roughly a third of all the nation’s homeless people live, doctors […]
California Gov. Newsom Wants Voters to Approve Billions More to Help the Homeless. Will It Help?
By Angela Hart
February 26, 2024
KFF Health News Original
A March 5 ballot initiative seeks $6.4 billion to build thousands of new housing units and provide mental health treatment for homeless people — on top of the billions already being spent to address the public health crisis. Despite significant support from health and law enforcement officials, many front-line workers are skeptical that more money is the answer.
¿Ofrecer vivienda gratis es atención médica? Programas de Medicaid dicen que sí
By Angela Hart
February 12, 2024
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Estados están invirtiendo miles de millones de dólares en un experimento de atención médica de alto riesgo: utilizar fondos ya escasos de seguros de salud públicos para proporcionar vivienda a los estadounidenses más pobres y enfermos.
Is Housing Health Care? State Medicaid Programs Increasingly Say ‘Yes’
By Angela Hart
February 6, 2024
KFF Health News Original
States are using their Medicaid programs to offer poor and sick people housing services, such as paying six months’ rent or helping hunt for apartments. The trend comes in response to a growing homelessness epidemic, but experts caution this may not be the best use of limited health care money.
California’s Ambitious Medicaid Experiment Gets Tripped Up in Implementation
By Angela Hart
December 5, 2023
KFF Health News Original
The health care insurers, nonprofit organizations, and other groups responsible for implementing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to infuse Medicaid with social services say their ability to serve vulnerable, low-income Californians is hamstrung.
Beyond Insulin: Medi-Cal Expands Patient Access to Diabetes Supplies
By Angela Hart
November 17, 2023
KFF Health News Original
California’s Medicaid program is making it easier for people with diabetes to obtain the supplies and equipment they need to manage their blood sugar, partly by relaxing preauthorization requirements that can cause life-threatening delays.
Street Medicine Practitioners Are Getting Paid. Now They Want Higher Rates.
By Angela Hart
October 31, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Street medicine, the practice of caring for homeless people outdoors, is a burgeoning field — an unfortunate reality as America confronts a growing homelessness epidemic. But it’s at least become a little more rewarding after the Biden administration made an under-the-radar yet revolutionary change to Medicaid. Starting this month, doctors, nurses and other providers can bill […]
Health Care ‘Game-Changer’? Feds Boost Care for Homeless Americans
By Angela Hart
October 19, 2023
KFF Health News Original
This month, the federal government started paying for treatments delivered outside hospitals and clinics, expanding funding for “street medicine” teams that treat homeless patients. California led the way on the change, which could help sick and vulnerable patients get healthy, sober, and, in some cases, into housing.
Pregnant and Addicted: Homeless Women See Hope in Street Medicine
By Angela Hart
October 18, 2023
KFF Health News Original
As homelessness explodes across California, so does the number of expectant mothers on the streets. Street medicine doctors are getting paid more by Medicaid and offering some of those mothers-to-be a chance to overcome addiction and reverse chronic diseases so they can have healthy babies — and perhaps keep them.
Covered California reducirá los costos de los pacientes cuando los demócratas obtengan fondos de Newsom
By Angela Hart
July 27, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Los líderes legislativos habían presionado a Newsom, también demócrata, para que canalizara los ingresos fiscales hacia la reducción de los costos de la atención sanitaria.