Articles by Kristen Hwang
May 2025
‘I’m Really Scared’: Elderly and Disabled Californians With More Than $2,000 Could Lose Medi-Cal
Her Miscarriage Showed the Limits of California’s Abortion Protections. Where You Live Matters
Newsom Proposes to Freeze Medi-Cal Enrollment for Undocumented Immigrants
April 2025
Biden Let California Get Creative With Medicaid Spending. Trump Is Signaling That May End
Steeply Discounted Overdose-Reversal Medicine Now Available to Any Californian
March 2025
Trump Clawed Back Billions in Federal Health Grants. Here’s How Much California Is Losing
They Live in California’s Republican Districts. They Feel Betrayed by Looming Health Care Cuts
California Is Spending Billions on Mental Health Housing. Will It Reach Those Most in Need?
February 2025
California Voters Erased a Plan to Keep Kids Insured. It Might Be Too Late to Fix It
January 2025
Newsom Committed California to Making Its Own Insulin. It’s at Least a Year Behind His Schedule
November 2024
How Will Trump Change Health Care? California Braces for Fights Over Insurance and Abortion
October 2024
This California Ballot Measure Promises Money for Health Care. Its Critics Warn It Could Backfire
August 2024
These Middlemen Say They Keep Drug Prices Low. California Lawmakers Don’t Buy It
They Delivered 5,600 Babies. They Blame California Rules for Putting Them Out of Business
May 2024
The Single Largest Cut in Gavin Newsom’s New Budget Hits California Health Care Providers
April 2024
A New California Rule Tries to Hold Down Your Health Care Costs. Here’s How It Works
An ‘Impossible Situation’: Why California Hospitals Are Suing a Major Health Insurer
California Hospitals Keep Closing Their Labor Wards. Can Lawmakers Do Anything About It?
They Work 80 Hours a Week for Low Pay. Now, California’s Early-Career Doctors Are Joining Unions
March 2024
Will California Re-Up Its Empty Reserve of Abortion Pills After Today’s Supreme Court Hearing?
Californians Are Voting on Prop. 1, Gavin Newsom’s Mental Health Plan. Here’s What It Does
February 2024
California Gives New Moms Extra Medi-Cal Benefits. It Can’t Say Who’s Using Them
She Opened a Business to Deliver Babies. California Policies Drove Her Out of the Country
December 2023
Surprise Ambulance Bills Put These Families in Debt. A New California Law Bans the Practice
October 2023
Families Fume Over Newsom’s Veto of Children’s Hearing Aid Bill, Call His Plan ‘A Nightmare’
September 2023
California Sues Crisis Pregnancy Centers Over ‘Abortion Pill Reversal’ Claims
Gavin Newsom’s Mental Health Plan Is Going to Voters. Here’s What You Need to Know
California COVID Cases Are Increasing, Again. Here’s the Latest on Boosters and More
August 2023
Some of California’s Best-Paid Public Employees Say They’re Ready to Strike
July 2023
California Needs Thousands of Nurses, but Leaders Can’t Agree on How to Fill Jobs
Covered California Announces Biggest Increase in Premiums Since 2018. Here’s How Much
Gavin Newsom’s Mental Health Plan Could Strip More Than $700 Million From Services, Report Says
June 2023
Why ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ Will Be California’s Next Abortion Battleground
May 2023
California Has Tried to Cut the Cost of Insulin for Years. Why It Might Finally Succeed
April 2023
Long COVID in California: ‘A Pandemic of Loneliness and Social Isolation and Rejection’
The California Mask Mandate Is Gone. Now Some Patients Fear for Their Health.
California May Change Its Mental Health Funding. Why That Might Cut Some Services
February 2023
COVID Disparities Grow as California Ends State of Emergency
Is California Breaking Its Promise to Cut Health Care Costs?
January 2023
State COVID Testing Sites Begin to Close
December 2022
More Street Medicine Teams Tackle the Homeless Health Care Crisis
October 2022
California to End the COVID State of Emergency
September 2022
As State Sets Higher Medi-Cal Contract Standards, Some Providers Predict Major Disruptions
June 2022
California Will Require Health Facilities to Start Sharing Patient Data With Each Other
March 2022
Overdue: State Owes Community Clinics Millions for COVID Vaccinations
February 2022
COVID-19 Has Turned Deadlier for Black Californians, Who Have the State’s Lowest Vaccination Rate
California Launches Ambitious Effort to Transform Medi-Cal to ‘Whole Person Care’
January 2022
California Hospitals Predict COVID Crisis Will Last Four to Six Weeks
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