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 years since Dobbs, California continues to stand firm as a strong reproductive freedom state
Jun 24, 2026
News What you need to know: The Newsom administration has implemented significant policies to bolster reproductive freedom and individuals’ rights to control their own future. SACRAMENTO – Four years after Donald Trump’s Republican-majority Supreme Court ripped away...
This Father’s Day, Governor Newsom celebrates 1,905% growth in California fathers taking bonding leave to care for newborns
Jun 19, 2026
News What you need to know: Since California launched the nation’s first Paid Family Leave Program, bonding leave claims filed by fathers have increased 1,905%, helping more dads take time to care for and bond with their new child. California fathers now take bonding...
ICYMI: California ranks #1 in U.S. for supporting maternal mental health
Jun 1, 2026
News What you need to know: California was named the nation’s leading state for maternal mental health support in a recent report by the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health. SACRAMENTO – California continues to lead the country in supporting maternal mental...