Posts Tagged: Assembly Health Committee
Opinion
OPINION – Long plagued by racism and discrimination, communities of color lag on many healthcare measures. Unfortunately, some insurance companies are erecting extraordinary barriers that will actually delay necessary treatment for patients — and exacerbate inequities.
News
Under AB 716, ambulance providers couldn’t bill patients more than the established payment by Medi-Cal or Medicare fee-for -service amount, which is ever is greater.
News
A growing chorus of critics say well-intentioned but archaic laws – designed to protect individual rights, with stiff restrictions on what constitutes “grave disability” – prevent desperate families from getting severely mentally ill relatives into treatment, leaving them to suffer and die on the street.