Affordable health care for all
We are one of the first states in the nation to offer health care to everyone with low incomes. We did this through an expansion of Medi-Cal. You can get this medical care, no matter your immigration status. California is also lowering health care costs, including for prescription drugs and insulin. And we are increasing access to high-quality health care providers.
Transforming behavioral health
California is making behavioral health services more available to all, especially our youth. We’re investing in our health care workers and building housing and treatment sites. We’re getting more help to those challenged with mental illness and substance abuse. And we’ve started a nation-leading program called CARE Court. It helps get people off the streets, out of jails and hospitals, and into treatment, with the support they need.
Safeguarding reproductive health
Radical politicians are assaulting women’s health care with dangerous and deadly consequences. But California is protecting women. Governor Newsom has taken action, including signing more than 20 laws to support and expand abortion care. He led the successful push to have the right to reproductive freedom added to California’s constitution. We will protect women who seek basic care and the health care workers who provide it.
News about health care
Governor Newsom applauds major win for all Americans as judges find Trump Administration illegally withheld SNAP benefits
Oct 31, 2025
News What you need to know: Governor Newsom commended the findings of two judges affirming the state’s position that the Trump Administration is legally responsible for supporting SNAP funding through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin...
California invests over $140 million to support Planned Parenthood health centers amid Trump’s efforts to defund
Oct 23, 2025
News What you need to know: Amid an ongoing government shutdown and President Trump’s budget betrayal this summer, Governor Newsom is announcing over $140 million in state investments to support Planned Parenthood health centers across California. This funding would...
Governor Newsom announces affordable CalRx® insulin, $11 a pen, will soon be available for purchase
Oct 16, 2025
News What you need to know: Governor Newsom announced that California’s CalRx® Insulin Glargine in pen form will be available to consumers for a suggested retail price of not more than $55 per five-pack of pens (average cost of $11 per pen) beginning January 1, 2026,...