Health Insurance and Costs

The election breakthroughs in states such as Nebraska, Utah and Idaho suggest the national conversation on universal coverage is changing.

We asked two leading policy experts from both sides of the aisle for their take on what the midterm results mean for the country’s health care policies. Here's what they said.

Health workers and a younger generation help Hmong elders overcome a devastating past in one Northern California community.

As California faces a statewide shortage of physicians, there’s one area that will be hit especially hard: the large collection of cities, suburbs and rural areas that make up Southern California’s Inland Empire.

Mobile health workers say their contact with residents of a homeless encampment in the Coachella Valley dropped after the camp was bulldozed.

Protecting sick people is a hot issue on the midterm campaign trail, a barometer of how attitudes about health insurance have shifted over the past decade.

In underserved areas such as California's San Joaquin County, access to care can be difficult at best.

An Idaho native helping to lead the effort to bring more health care to lower-income residents gave a blunt assessment: “It’s a tragedy if we lose,” he said. “If we win, we make history.”

Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism. 

She is ‘still defending that vote’ to repeal the health law, says her Democratic rival for Congress.