Gavin Newsom's budget proposal includes reinstating an asset test for Medi-Cal to address rising costs with the program for low-income, disabled and elderly Californians.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing reinstating an 'asset test' that would narrow eligibility for low-income seniors and adults with disabilities.

Legislators, cutting $3.5 billion in overall funding, endorsed a freeze on state health care for undocumented immigrants but ...

"The state must take difficult but necessary steps to ensure fiscal stability," spokesperson for California Governor Gavin ...

California budget hawks are suggesting an approach that disproportionately disadvantages patients with cancer and HIV/AIDS.

One can make a reasonable case for a higher asset limit, but removing it opened the system to abuse. This is a safety-net program, not a “de facto free” healthcare system. Furthermore, Newsom wants to ...

Governor Gavin Newsom clearly doesn’t get medical care for his family from a physician that still accepts Medi-Cal patients.

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed major cuts to Medi-Cal and other social programs to close a $12 billion deficit. Democrats in the ...

Unable to stomach even the modest cuts proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature instead passed — in time for the June 15 deadline — a $325-billion budget that ...

Newsom also is proposing a cap on how much home care Medi-Cal enrollees like Soto could receive. In unveiling the proposal, Newsom said that California has a “spending problem” and needs to ...