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
In the four years since Governor Newsom’s new hospice provider ban took effect, California has revoked more than 280 licenses
News What you need to know: The Trump administration is trying to take credit for cracking down on hospice fraud – despite dismantling federal oversight efforts – while California has been preventing and fighting fraud for years, with a moratorium on hospice...
Governor Newsom meets with World Health Organization Director-General, announces California becomes first state to join WHO-coordinated international network
News What you need to know: As Trump withdraws the U.S. from the World Health Organization, California has become the first and only state to join a WHO-coordinated global outbreak response network — strengthening rapid detection and response to emerging public health...
Governor Newsom rejects Louisiana’s attempt to extradite California doctor for providing abortion care
News SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today rejected the State of Louisiana’s request to extradite a California physician for providing medication abortion that is legal in California, citing his legal authority to deny the request. “Louisiana’s request is denied....
