@healthaccess.bsky.social
California’s Health Care Consumer Advocacy Coalition. https://linktr.ee/healthaccessca #Health4All #Care4AllCA #FightForOurHealth #ACA #CALeg #CABudget
🎊 Congratulations to Monique Limon, the new Senate Pro Tempore! We appreciate the Senator's partnership with health advocates on SB 1061 which keeps medical debt off credit reports. We look forward to working with her to create a better health system for all Californians 👏
18.11.2025 01:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With federal health cuts looming, state policymakers must continue to hold the health industry accountable on costs, say CPEHN ED Kiran Savage-Sangwan & @healthaccess.bsky.social ED @thewallner.bsky.social in this @calmatters.org op-ed.
15.11.2025 01:30 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Families are already struggling to afford food and rent. Now Congress is letting health care costs skyrocket, too.
Tell your representative: protect ACA subsidies; don’t let our premiums spike!
Add your name: secure.everyaction.com/EItvSlch90ya...
With critical federal subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, the cost of health insurance that is purchased through the Affordable Care Act marketplace is about to explode — in many cases, doubling or tripling what people have been paying.
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Registered nurse Kristie Scheidt walks past rooms in the intensive care unit of El Camino Health Mountain View Hospital in Mountain View on Dec. 22, 2020. Photo by Randy Vazquez, Bay Area News Group
Commentary: As advocates for health consumers and marginalized communities, we believe limiting growth in health care costs is both fair and essential. Increases in health care costs have vastly outpaced inflation. bit.ly/3WOvDzp
📝 Amanda McAllister-Wallner & Kiran Savage-Sangwan
📸 Randy Vasquez
Join us and @healthaccess.bsky.social for a series of webinars on the upcoming changes to Medi-Cal.
Learn about what those Medi-Cal changes will look like for our immigrant communities, when they are happening and what you can do to help immigrant communities understand these changes.
Los cambios a Medi-Cal están en camino. Únase a nosotros y @healthaccess.bsky.social para un seminario virtual sobre cómo se verán estos cambios a Medi-Cal para nuestras comunidades inmigrantes.
No se lo pierda. ¡Escanée el código QR y regístrese hoy!
This CA couple's @coveredca.bsky.social premiums are going up 800% 👀 They are now considering moving to a foreign country to get health care. Or going uninsured. House Republicans must act NOW to restore funding and put Californians’ health care before politics.
04.11.2025 19:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#Yeson50
04.11.2025 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: The State of Health Coverage in California: Progress, Disparities, and Policy Threats
The harmful Republican megabill, H.R. 1, could cost California nearly $30 billion each year, threatening a decade of progress expanding health coverage.
⚡ We share more: https://bit.ly/4qxcH5Q
It’s California Special Election Day!
Voting YES on Prop. 50 in-person at the polls today?
Make sure you know your voter rights before you vote.
For more detailed info 👉 sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-bill-rights
🚨Secretary of State's confidential toll-free Voter Hotline: (800) 345-VOTE (8683).
Election Day is tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 4 — don’t wait!
✔️ Check your registration
📍 Find your polling place
📬 Drop off your ballot
Make your plan to vote today → health-access.org/elections/
#YesOn50 #GOTV
Hospitals are shutting down Gender-Affirming Care out of fear, not facts.
GAC is an Essential Health Benefit protected under CA’s Trans Inclusive Care Act (SB 923).
Refusing care = violating rights.
TGI people deserve affirming, consistent, lifesaving care.
Find resources: https://bit.ly/4hSG9j3
LGBTQ+ people are one of the fastest-growing and influential voter blocs in the country — and when we fight, we win. To save our democracy and ensure fair representation for all, it's imperative our community show up to the ballot box and Vote YES on Prop 50. #YesOnCA50
30.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🗳️ Help defend our democracy — and our health care.
Volunteer as a poll monitor or attorney before Election Day (Nov 4)!
Training links + details → health-access.org/elections/
#YesOn50 #GOTV
🔪 Think slasher movies are scary? Wait until you learn how Republicans in Congress are slashing our health care. We can stop the bleeding - Vote YES on Prop 50 this November 4th!
🗳 health-access.org/elections
#YesOn50 #GOTV
Want to defend democracy up close?
Join the final Yes on 50 volunteer push:
🗳 Poll Monitors — Training Oct 30, 6PM
⚖️ Volunteer Attorneys — Training Nov 1, 12PM
Make sure every Californian can vote freely and fairly.
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A two frame scooby doo meme. the top frame shows a masked monster with the text "Trump's big beautiful bill" over it. The bottom frame shows the monster's face without his mask beneath the text "H.R. 1" while Fred holds it smugly.
A two frame scooby doo meme. the top frame shows a masked monster with the text "skyrocketing health care premiums" over it. The bottom frame shows the monster's face without his mask beneath the text "H.R. 1" while Fred holds it smugly.
A two frame scooby doo meme. the top frame shows a masked monster with the text "Attacks on Gender Affirming Care" over it. The bottom frame shows the monster's face without his mask beneath the text "H.R. 1" while Fred holds it smugly.
A two frame scooby doo meme. the top frame shows a masked monster with the text "De facto repeal of the ACA" over it. The bottom frame shows the monster's face without his mask beneath the text "H.R. 1" while Fred holds it smugly.
You might have heard of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but have you heard of H.R. 1?
👻 Jump scare: they're the same. 😱
No matter what you call it, the impacts of this scary bad health policy will horrify you equally.
👹 Beware of the H.R. 1 monster and its many masks!
Real Californians are getting hit with a reported 97% increase in Covered California premiums. Families & older adults can't absorb these costs.
Are your costs rising? Share your story—it's how we move decision-makers to act: secure.everyaction.com/SDZFaMRQjEG1...
Listos, preparados, a VOTAR! Este es nuestro momento, California.
Vota por correo. Vota temprano. Vota sí a la Prop 50 para el 4 de noviembre.
Ready, set, VOTE! This is our moment, California.
Vote by mail. Vote Early. Vote YES on Prop 50 by November 4th. #Yeson50
Health care costs have outpaced inflation & wage growth "with very little to show for it," explained @thewallner.bsky.social.
Faced with impossible rates, consumers skip care or take on medical debt.
"That's why #OHCA set a spending target that aligns with consumers' ability to pay."
In this #mcweekly article, our executive director, @thewallner.bsky.social, explains why California created the Office of Health Care Affordability ( #OHCA ) and its role in making health care costs more accessible for consumers.
20.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
'They delayed, they denied': How insurance errors endanger California patients by Kristen Hwang, October 16, 2025. “From the patient’s perspective everything is so darn confusing,” Kuhn said. “The provider directory is a critical tool but if it is not maintained it is useless and increases the stress and difficulty of getting health care.” “I knew my life depended on not giving up,” Kuhn said. “If I had listened to their threats, I would have died.”
“We’ve been hearing for years from consumers, stories about how hard it is to find a provider,” our advocate Katie Van Deynze told @calmatters.org.
Health Access continues our multi-year fight, to hold health plans accountable for making sure people can access care when they need it!
'They delayed, they denied': How insurance errors endanger California patients by Kristen Hwang, October 16, 2025. “From the patient’s perspective everything is so darn confusing,” Kuhn said. “The provider directory is a critical tool but if it is not maintained it is useless and increases the stress and difficulty of getting health care.” “I knew my life depended on not giving up,” Kuhn said. “If I had listened to their threats, I would have died.”
“We’ve been hearing for years from consumers, stories about how hard it is to find a provider,” our advocate Katie Van Deynze told @calmatters.org
Health Access continues our multi-year fight to hold health plans accountable for making sure people can access care when they need it!
Mary Kuhn at her home in Lafayette on Oct. 10, 2025. Kuhn had urgent surgery delayed and denied by Blue Shield of California for over half a year before finally getting it approved in June of 2025. Photo by Jungho Kim for CalMatters HED: ‘They delayed, they denied’: How insurance errors endanger California patients
Lawmakers have taken steps to require insurers to keep more accurate provider directories but state rules still aren’t complete and "ghost networks" fail patients without much penalty. https://cal.news/4o1F8aE
📷 Jungho Kim
Californians - have you encountered this problem before? Let us know 👇
“This lawsuit is a blatant attempt to try to change the rules of the game after the fact because you don’t like the outcome,” said our executive director, @thewallner.bsky.social.
17.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Governor Newsom announces affordable CalRx® insulin, $11 a pen, will soon be available for purchase. “In a moment where inflation is spiking everyday prices for Californians and our health care system is under attack in the form of Medicaid cuts from H.R. 1, a lower cost insulin will bring much needed relief both to California pocketbooks and our state budget,” said member Chris Noble, Health Access California’s Organizing Director and member of the CalRx Insulin Patient Advisory Council.
Big news coming out of @cagov.bsky.social ’s office today announcing a lower cost #CalRX insulin option for Californians!🙌 Our Director of Organizing, Chris Noble, was on hand to lend the support of health and patient advocates. ❣️📣
Read the Governor's full release: www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/16/g...
Nearly 24 million people are counting on Congress to save their health care. #CongressMustAct
08.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
