Medicaid

The UC Board of Regents’ Health Services Committee convened at UCLA on Wednesday morning to vote on two action items.

A recent study by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health revealed that the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, reduced private insurance coverage disparities between African-American and white patients.

The city of Berkeley is planning on launching a mobile wellness center that would provide mental health services and counseling at homeless encampments throughout the city. 

Voter suppression exacerbates long-standing racial and socioeconomic inequalities by selectively diminishing the opportunity to use our democratic process.

A recent study by UC Berkeley’s Petris Center found that many of California’s smaller or rural hospitals are struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic because of lacking federal aid.

U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono, along with U.S. Reps. Judy Chu, Raúl Grijalva and Lou Correa, have ushered legislation to ensure that “vulnerable communities” have access to health care and resources during the COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, pandemic.

The Trump administration announced that it will be implementing a new rule that will make it more difficult for immigrants to be admitted into the country as legal permanent residents if they have used food stamps, Section 8 housing vouchers or most forms of Medicaid.

The Berkeley Outpatient Center, a joint health facility from UCSF Health and John Muir Health that provides primary and preventive care, will meet in the next week to discuss whether the facility will accept UC Berkeley’s Student Health Insurance Plan, according to John Muir Health spokesperson Ben Drew.

Although more UC Berkeley students are using food stamps than ever before, policy restrictions surrounding CalFresh subsidies have limited the aid for some students with disabilities.