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California’s Separate and Unequal Healthcare System and How Sacramento May Only Be Making It Worse.

Article by Paul Y. Song, MD Over the past two years, there have been countless tragic stories about the separate and unequal nature of Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid system). These reports have highlighted numerous disadvantages, overall difficulties, financial hardships, and outrageous delays that far too many Californians and especially those from communites of color face. From

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Just Say It: The Health Care System Has Collapsed

BY VISHAL KHETPAL SEPT 07, 20215:45 AM Recently, a local news station in Houston ran a story about a man who passed away while waiting for a hospital bed. The story went viral. Daniel Wilkinson, a 46-year-old veteran who served two deployments in Afghanistan, presented to a community hospital a few doors down from his home

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CalCare Resolution Passes with the Los Angeles City Council

LACC PASSES CALCARE RESOLUTION!!! 📣❤🎉✊🤙 YESSSSS!!!! The LA City Council just passed a resolution in support of CalCare AB1400!!! The largest city in CA wants state Medicare for All, so healthcare is guaranteed for all CA residents, regardless of income, age, employment or immigration status! LA first, CA next. 🏄🏽 LET’S DO THIS!! ORGANIZE. AGITATE.

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Nurses’ Campaign to Win CalCare: Our Plan for Fall 2021

Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, nurses have long understood the need for single-payer, guaranteed health care for all. Nurses know all too well the deep failings of our fragmented, profit-driven health care system, and California is no exception. 3.2 million Californians have no health insurance at all. Over a third of Californians report delaying or skipping necessary care

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Thousands March to Demand Medicare-for-All

by Rising Up With Sonali FEATURING DR. PAUL SONG – Thousands of people marched across the U.S. in 50 cities on Saturday July 24th to demand “Medicare for All,” and expand the current free government-run healthcare program to everyone under 65. In California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom made campaign promises to back a single payer bill

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Hospitals charge huge ‘trauma’ fees to treat people with minor injuries

By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News   Updated 8:15 AM ET, Sat July 17, 2021 (KHN) The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary. Sutter Health Memorial Medical Center

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Letter to the Healthy California Commission Rebuttal

By Emily J. Plympton   Dear Dr. Ghaly,     We are writing to you on behalf of Healthcare For All – Los Angeles to express our grave concerns regarding the conduct and efficacy of this Commission. Thus far, it has failed to produce any policy directives or legislative suggestions to support its mission of

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