By Erin Edwards for ProPublica and Robin Fields ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. “It just feels very unnecessary.” Since the Dobbs decision, abortion care for service members seems to be coming under heightened scrutiny, said retired Rear Adm. Dana Thomas, who was until recently the Coast Guard’s chief medical officer and advocated for Nakagawa. “There have not been …
Sara Hayden — covered by Medi-Cal, as Medicaid is called in California — poses with some of her medications at home in Half Moon Bay in 2017. “I’m still shocked and I’m still reeling from it,” said John Sturm, one of about 325,000 members of Community Health Group, the largest Medi-Cal plan in San Diego County, which could lose its …
Denise Williams, of Adelanto, says the Inland Empire Health Plan, a county-run Medi-Cal managed-care insurer that covers her son, Markeano, does not coordinate effectively with his doctors or with another state agency that provides some of his care. “The state has had a lot of difficulty — because of skill and will — in managing and enforcing the terms of …
