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• Media and health reform

  It's been a little more than five months since President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- aka, health reform -- into law. Following are some of the topics that the media have spotlighted from the 2,000-plus pages of legislation Read More... Posted Monday, August 30, 2010 12:00 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, Kaiser Family Foundation, health care reform, Medicare, President Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, IRS, lifestyle choices

• Hey honey, wanna out-migrate?

  Get used to it. California deficits of $20 billion or more, year after year. That's the warning that state Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor has issued in a surprisingly readable 40-page document. Cuts. Taxes/fees. Furloughs. Layoffs. And Californians still Read More... Posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:23 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, California budget deficits, State Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor

• Medicinal face-bashing

  It'll happen some time after July 1. Bleeding gums, rotted teeth, the sheer pain and desperation. Someone will grab a brick, a fork, a two-by-four. A gruesome ride to an increasingly scarce and unbelievably overburdened California hospital emergency department Read More... Posted Friday, June 26, 2009 8:31 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, health care reform, July 1, Medi-Cal adult dental services

• Slash, but don't burn

  Let's give the LA Times some credit. At a time when newspapers, including the Times, are being written off, are hunkering down and taking safety in the free food of reporting based on public records, the Times produced a decent game plan in an editorial Read More... Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 2:48 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, Los Angeles Times, California's budget deficit

• Dinosaur vs. octuplets

  One federal data guesstimate placed the hospital costs for each of the Suleman octuplets at $164,000. Or about $1.3 million for all eight high-risk kids. The actual numbers are usually confidential -- but this isn't about all the controversies attendant Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:36 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, Community Medical Centers, Suleman octuplets, Medicare, Steve Walter, Greenwich Village, fountain pens

• Drilling for docs

  It's the latest in the "blame, don't blame" game of health-care, finger-pointing -- with at least one worthwhile takeaway. The Public Policy Institute of California has a new report, "Emergency Department Care in California; Who Uses It and Why?" Key Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:09 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, Community Medical Centers, Public Policy Institute of California, Community Regional Medical Center, UC Merced medical school

• What if? You better ask

  The grass has turned to straw. The darkened building has a foreclosure sign taped to the door. Past-due notices are scrunched into the jamb. That describes houses in my Clovis neighborhood. It soon may well describe some California hospitals. Members Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:29 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, Community Regional Medical Center, Reedley, California State Rural Health Association

• At least this dinosaur can bite

  My dentist of 20 years calls me "his dinosaur." I'm one of only a couple of his patients who gets teeth drilled and filled, crowns implanted -- dang near everything -- without an anesthetic. Anesthetic was never offered to me as a kid. And my Catholic Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:54 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Medi-Cal, Los Angeles Times, California budget deficits, Dr. Diana Zschaschel, dentists, dinosaurs