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
En el Día de Denim, el Gobernador Newsom destaca las acciones para apoyar a sobrevivientes de agresión sexual
Apr 29, 2026
News Lo que necesita saber: California apoyando a las sobrevivientes de agresión sexual con nuevas leyes y recursos — ampliando la atencion, fortaleciendo las protecciones y haciendo rendir cuentas a los agresores. SACRAMENTO – En este Día de Denim y durante el Mes de...
California marks 10 years since voter-approved cannabis legalization
Apr 20, 2026
News What you need to know: California has cleared over 215,000 cannabis convictions and thwarted $1.2 billion in illicit cannabis activity in the decade since voters passed Prop 64 in 2016. SACRAMENTO – California has cleared more than 215,000 cannabis convictions...
Governor Newsom calls on Trump administration to remove roadblocks to California’s expansion of essential health benefits, including IVF
Apr 13, 2026
News What you need to know: California is calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to approve the state’s application to update its essential health benefits (EHBs), which includes the expansion of coverage requirements for In Vitro...