August 24, 2022
Like many physicians, I’ve spent the last three years fighting to keep my patients safe during the ever-evolving COVID ...
April 11, 2022
CMA is pleased to announce that Senior VP of Government Relations and Political Operations Janus Norman will become CCT...
February 07, 2022
Perhaps more than any state in America, California continues to make progress toward the historic promise of health acc...
January 04, 2021
A new campaign led by health professionals and health advocates is emerging to expose the health insurance industry’s d...
June 03, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on society. As of late May, there have been over 100,000 cases in California an...
December 19, 2018
Submit your op-ed today by emailing the CMA communications team. Staff will confirm receipt and proof your work before ...
August 05, 2018
Not long ago, health insurance companies limited access to insurance and quality health care for millions of California...
July 10, 2018
Public health should be a nonpartisan issue – off limits to corporate greed and free from political rhetoric. This was ...
June 29, 2018
The federal government’s recently enacted “zero-tolerance” policy of enforcement of immigration has sparked widespread ...
October 13, 2017
California is projected to have 5,000 fewer physicians than the population needs by 2025. Because physicians are the mo...
July 13, 2017
The “right” to health care is only one of the elements of progress rooted in the fabled 1960s, along with civil rights,...
April 05, 2017
Voters overwhelmingly sent a message to Big Tobacco — products that cause cancer and kill people must also pay for part ...
March 08, 2017
On March 6, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Republican leadership, with the support of the White House
February 15, 2017
February is “Hearth Month” — a great reminder that heart disease is preventable by virtue of our lifestyle.
February 08, 2017
Like many Californians, you want to get healthier. You’re off to a great start to help prevent heart disease, the numbe...
October 28, 2016
#Election2016 is proving to be one of the most memorable election cycles in recent history — and we’re not just referr...
October 24, 2016
UCLA research showed 46 percent of adults in the Golden State (13 million) don’t know they already have diabetes or pr...
September 27, 2016
The turbulent nature of this year’s election has generated plenty of debate across political party lines, but there’s on...
August 31, 2016
When you hear the phrase “medical interns,” your mind may conjure up a scene from Grey’s Anatomy, but for those working...
August 17, 2016
Each year, more than 20,000 Californians are injured in drunk driving accidents and more than a thousand additional vic...
August 11, 2016
AB 72 would force all out-of-network doctors into a “de facto contract” without holding insurers accountable for narrow...
August 03, 2016
CMA Capitol Insight is a biweekly column by veteran journalist Anthony York, reporting on the inner workings of the stat...
June 21, 2016
This week, we’ll wrap up the primary election, and focus on what to watch in November. But we begin with the state budg...
June 07, 2016
The nation’s eyes will be on California this week, as voters here go to the polls in the final major presidential conte...
April 26, 2016
Last week was a frantic one inside the Capitol as lawmakers faced a key deadline to pass bills out of policy committee....
April 25, 2016
The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) recently released a series of proposals that would change the Coordinate...
April 12, 2016
Gov. Jerry Brown continued to make history when he signed a $15/hour minimum wage into law. The governor, whose adminis...
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