Claudia Boyd-Barrett

A KFF Health News analysis found Medi-Cal lost almost 100,000 immigrants without legal status in the second half of 2025.

Medi-Cal immigrant enrollment is dropping. Researchers point to Trump’s policies

An analysis by KFF Health News found the health care program for low-income Californians lost almost 100,000 immigrants without legal status in the second half of 2025.

Julio Peña Jr. hugs his stepmother, Lydia Romero, outside an immigration detention facility in downtown Los Angeles as they try to get information about his father, Julio Cesar Peña, who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in front of his Glendale, California, home in December.

Health and Medicine

‘I can’t tell you’: Attorneys, relatives struggle to find hospitalized ICE detainees

Claudia Boyd-Barrett

Hospitals are drawn into the transparency fight being waged between the families of detainees and the federal agencies that arrested them

Covered California rates will increase by about 8% in 2025. About 1.7 million people receive health insurance through the program, which was created to implement the Affordable Care Act.

Health and Medicine

Covered California hits record enrollment, but key subsidies in jeopardy

Claudia Boyd-Barrett

Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, has hit a record 1.8 million enrollees and the number could climb higher ahead of a Jan. 31 open enrollment deadline, due in large part to enhanced subsidies that have made plans more affordable.