In contrast to New York voters favoring a "democratic socialist," Californians chose Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and other moderate Democrats.

Congress formalized a massive budget bill that cuts more than $1 trillion in federal health care spending to programs like ...

To develop interventions that can address the challenges highlighted by the National Health Expenditure projections, more ...

Patient advocates say they frequently hear from people who thought they didn't need for Medicare because they had group ...

With hundreds of thousands of Bay Staters at risk of losing health insurance coverage under congressional plans to cut Medicaid funding and adjust eligibility criteria, insurance reform advocates ...

Supporters of single-payer health care march to the Capitol, April 26, 2017, in Sacramento, California. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) Spoiler alert: It hasn't gotten any cheaper since then.

For many Californians, the proposal of a state-run single-payer health system remains a 'pie-in-the-sky' idea, and odds are it could remain that way, especially if leading advocates can't agree on ...

Two proposals that would usher in single-payer health care have divided former allies in the fight for reform. For many Californians, the proposal of a state-run single-payer health system remains ...

On the other side, the California nurses union, a longtime driving force behind the single-payer movement, opposes Wiener’s bill, arguing it could derail its own legislation, Assembly Bill 1690.

It’s not single-payer, but it’s still some of the most consequential health care reforms in decades — and a potential sign of where the debates over health care are heading.

The failure of single-payer health care legislation in California casts doubt on the ability of other states to pass government-run, universal health care. But activists in New York, Washington state, ...

Clifford Marks writes about the long-standing battle within the American Medical Association over single-payer health care, and how generational shifts and racial diversification in the medical ...