Health Care

For The Los Angeles Times, a highly revealing juxtaposition

If you’re a conservative or libertarian who’s not just mad but astounded by how much the media protect Barack Obama, Wednesday’s front page of The Los Angeles Times was likely to generate either a stroke or a snort of disbelief/amusement.

New fears push more California e-cig bans

James Poulos March 31, 2014

Southern California’s thriving e-cigarette industry faces a big new problem: nationwide, their products are becoming a hot new focal point of public health worries. In the latest report casting “vapes” in a negative light, the New York Times called the nicotine

Study: Med-Cal rolls could expand by 1 million

John Seiler March 20, 2014

Although the California Budget Project sometimes gets into a tax-and-spend stance, their analyses often are based on solid numbers. That’s the case with their latest on Medi-Cal in Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2014-15, which begins on

Revolt against ‘dog food’ school lunches went far beyond LAUSD

Chris Reed March 5, 2014

As I have pointed out repeatedly as a blogger and journo, Nanny Staters are bafflingly confident that people like being bullied into living their lives in a way that Nanny Staters approve. That’s why one of my favorite stories in

Sen. Gaines is suing Covered California

Tori Richards March 4, 2014

Obamacare’s most vocal critic in the California Legislature has announced that he will be filing a lawsuit Wednesday against Covered California. Sen. Ted Gaines, R-El Dorado Hills, has recently sparred with Covered California’s director, Peter Lee, over accountability pertaining to the

Do CA electeds really believe pot is healthier than e-cigarettes?

Chris Reed February 25, 2014

E-cigarettes that are far healthier than the normal kind remain under siege in California. Why? Cigarettes just aren’t OK with the cool kids running the Golden State — unless we’re talking about marijuana cigarettes. How odd. “A Los Angeles City

Report: ‘Polio-like’ disease a menace to CA children

Chris Reed February 24, 2014

Yahoo News, which is gearing up to be a player on the regional and national news scene, has a troubling new report about California: “Over a one-year period, five children in California developed a polio-like illness that caused severe weakness

Legislative bipartisan criticism aims at Covered CA spending

Tori Richards February 12, 2014

Responding to a state senator’s call for an investigation into the marketing budget of California’s Obamacare exchange, the agency says it is in great financial shape and even received high marks for an audit conducted last year. “By 2015/16,

California’s version of Obamacare a success? Not by the numbers

Chris Reed January 26, 2014

I’m pretty amazed at how long the CA media have gone along with the idea that the state’s version of Obamacare is doing well. I wrote about Covered California in Sunday’s U-T San Diego: “… the state’s version of Obamacare has

Covered California stumbles into new year

Joseph Perkins January 2, 2014

Manuel Arriola, co-owner of an Oxnard insurance broker, spent three hours and 15 minutes on the phone this past Monday with customer service representatives for Covered California. He needed to find out whether or not insurance applications he forwarded to