CA is dismantling its healthcare system
California built its health coverage system over decades, expanding Medi-Cal and helping millions of residents get insured.
California built its health coverage system over decades, expanding Medi-Cal and helping millions of residents get insured. Now that progress is reversing.
Facing state budget shortfalls and new federal restrictions, California is dismantling the very system that at one point almost covered everyone. In a new documentary, CalMatters goes inside one clinic in Los Angeles […]
Original reporting: CalMatters.
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