The bill to regulate health insurers' rate hikes cleared a key hurdle yesterday, as the Senate Committee on Health voted 5-3, with one abstention, to approve AB 52 by Assembly member Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles). Read the Article>

California, like most states, is in the process of creating two new health exchanges -- one for insurance and one for information. The two are closely related, somewhat dependent on each other and will have to work well together from birth for either to be successful. Read the Article>

Assembly Bill 52 would let California reject health insurance hikes.

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Only in San Francisco can a guy wearing a rainbow rasta wig be a voice of reason. But there he was, among an estimated 400 boisterous protesters, trying to keep the sidewalk clear so pedestrians could pass through the colorful event. Event organizer Don Bechler also was busy keeping the gathering legal and peaceful. Read the Article>

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Norman Williams would like to start with a basic premise: Adult day health care is important to the state of California. Read the Article>

When Melba Fritts was discharged from the hospital after a bout of bronchitis three years ago, doctors wanted her to go directly to a nursing home. Confined to a wheel chair and plagued by swelling limbs and skin sores, the 88-year-old Fritts suffers from congestive heart disease and diabetes. She needs full-time care. Read the Article>

With little public comment and about 15 people in attendance, the City Council of Brea, California, voted unanimously last month to slash pensions for future hires and require current employees to pay as much as 4.5 percent of their salary toward retirement, up from zero. Read the Article>

Last week's deadline to get legislation through the Assembly and Senate saw a number of big-ticket health care proposals make their way through the Legislature -- including one bill to regulate rate hikes by health insurers, and another to launch a new kind of basic health care insurance program in California. Read the Article>

A decade of advances in telehealth have improved patient outcomes in underserved California counties, but continued promise of reducing the state’s wide health disparities depends on overcoming several financial, policy, and technical hurdles. Read the Article>