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
California feeds over 3.2 million kids through summer SUN Bucks while Republican states refuse free federal dollars
News What you need to know: So far this summer, California has provided over 3.2 million low-income children with free meals through the SUN Bucks program, resulting in more than $162 million in food purchases. Over a dozen Republican-led states have refused to take...
Governor Newsom announces up to $3.3 billion of Prop 1 funding for treatment of seriously ill & homeless
News What you need to know: Just four months after passage, Governor Newsom today announced the availability of up to $3.3 billion in competitive grant funding to develop a wide range of behavioral health treatment settings for Californians who most need care. He is...
Governor Newsom expresses momentary relief that Idaho abortion ban won’t interfere in case of emergencies, warns of fight ahead
News What you need to know: The U.S. Supreme Court today reinstated a lower court order that ensures hospitals in Idaho can perform emergency services, including abortions, to save the life of a pregnant patient. The Court declined, however, to make clear once and for...
