Over the past three decades, Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program, has undergone considerable changes and expansion. By 2016, the program provided coverage to more than one in three Californians, and as of January 2024, eligibility has been extended to include all residents with incomes below specific...
Since its passage in 1965, the Medicaid program has grown to become the single largest payer for health care in the United States, costing $671.2 billion in 2020. Because of surges in enrollment from the pandemic and the present administration's priorities, spending is only projected...
In January 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services declared COVID-19 a public health emergency. Since then, the PHE has been renewed nine times, but it is scheduled to expire in August unless it is extended again. Its end will have a major effect...