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While many Californians who earn too much to be eligible for Medi-Cal can get subsidized coverage through Covered California, an estimated 460,000 residents aren’t allowed to buy insurance through state-run insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act because they lack legal status.

Proposition 29 would require clinics to have a doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant present at every clinic while patients are being treated.

California is trying to ease the pain of vasectomies by making them free for millions of residents.

Californians will decide in November whether to lock the right to abortion into the state constitution. If they vote “yes” on Proposition 1, they will also lock in a right that has gotten less attention: the right to birth control.

Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento bail on their plans to enact strict COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

While other states dramatically restrict abortion and the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court weighs Roe v. Wade, California is preparing to absorb the country’s abortion patients.