‘Ask Emily’ Columnist Emily Bazar

Prefers Woody Guthrie to Physics

Emily Bazar is a healthcare reporter who writes “Ask Emily,” a bi-weekly column supported by the California Healthcare Foundation that runs in more than 25 newspapers and NPR affiliate websites across California, answering questions about how Obamacare’s giant healthcare overhaul works. Before moderating a panel on whether on whether or not Obamacare gives Sacramento more healthcare choices, she sat down in the Zócalo green room to talk about reporting on the Affordable Care Act, why you won’t find her writing in a coffee shop, and her love of …

February 10, 2015

How Obamacare Is Changing the ER

Our Hospital Emergency Room Sees 400 Uninsured Patients Each Month. My Job Is to Get Them Covered.

by Araceli Martinez | December 31, 2014

Every month, nearly 400 people without health insurance visit the emergency department of the San Jose hospital where I work. Some of them come in after an accident. Others have …

Obamacare Is Turning Us Into a Better Hospital

Thousands of Newly Insured Patients Are Making Our Medical Center More Efficient and Creative

by Chester Kunnappilly | December 27, 2014

The holidays are a convenient time to take stock of our blessings and opportunities, and to consider the challenges we have overcome in the previous year. As I reflect back, …

L.A., Where the World Convalesces

Today, It’s Chinese Health Tourists. A Century Ago, It Was American Consumptives Coming for the Sunshine.

by William Deverell | December 18, 2014

The historical record is full of such stories: He moved to Los Angeles “for health reasons.” She relocated to Southern California “for her health.” Booster rhymes of the late 19th …

It Took 40 Years for California to Build a New Public Medical School

Will UC Riverside Produce a Different Breed of Doctors?

By G. Richard Olds | December 17, 2014

The United States spends more money on healthcare than any other country in the world. So how does Costa Rica outperform the United States in every measure of health of …

Dances with Obamacare

A Year of Major Illnesses and Expenses Has Our Family Playing a Game of Musical Chairs with Changing Doctors and Health Plans

by Catherine Keefe | December 8, 2014

At the exact moment President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed that “change has come to America,” I stood at the foot of my husband’s bed in the cardiac ICU of Mission Hospital …

If You Want to Make Sense of Obamacare, Go to San Diego

America's Finest City Just Might Offer the Country's Finest Chance at Successful Health Reform

Has the Affordable Care Act Fulfilled Its Promises?

A Year Into the New Healthcare Landscape, People Have More Choices and More Access—for the Most Part

Obamacare’s 19 New Californias

Don’t Try To Understand the National Legislation. Just Try to Understand Your Own Insurance Market.

How a Health Care Safety Net for the Poor Became California’s Top Priority

Medi-Cal’s Rapid Expansion Is a Triumph—And an Opportunity

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