Yonthan Mendal
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Cheaper Drugs Shouldnât Mean Losing Control of Your Medical Care (opens the original)
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MY THOUGHTS - Californiaâs SB 1094 could lower spending by expanding the use of biosimilars. But patients who have finally found a treatment that works deserve more than a cost-saving calculation. California has a prescription drug affordability problem, and lawmakers are right to look for solutions. But there is a line that cost-cutting should not cross: changing a patientâs successful treatment primarily because another medication costs less. That is the difficult question raised by Senate
When the Last-Minute Power Play Failed: Sacramento Finally Ran Out of (opens the original)
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MY THOUGHTS - Gavin Newsom came to the final days of his final regular legislative session with one more major problem he wanted California lawmakers to solve. They didn't. The collapse of Senate Bill 492, the wildfire-liability package that never received a final Assembly vote, was about more than one governor losing one legislative battle. It exposed a recurring weakness in Sacramento: complicated problems can remain unresolved for years, only to become emergencies when the legislative clock i
Newsomâs Next Immigration Gamble: Defy Federal Law And Dare Washington (opens the original)
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MY THOUGHTS - Gov. Gavin Newsom is about to decide whether California should take another extraordinary gamble with federal immigration law. This time, the battleground is the college campus. Assembly Bill 713 would prohibit Californiaâs public colleges and universities from disqualifying students from campus employment because of their immigration status. Supporters frame the issue as one of fairness: Students without legal status attend California colleges, face substantial financial barrier
California Canât Insure Its Homes. Now Sacramento Wants to Insure the (opens the original)
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INSURANCE EMERGENCY - California homeowners are struggling to find affordable coverage while Sacramento explores a new frontier in climate policy: insuring urban forests. The question is not whether trees matter. It is whether California has its priorities straight. California has an insurance emergency. Homeowners are losing coverage, premiums are climbing, and families in wildfire-prone communities are increasingly confronting limited insurance choices. After devastating fires, some homeowners
Free Metro? Who Pays the Billion-Dollar Bill? (opens the original)
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MY THOUGHTS - There is something strange happening at Los Angeles Metro. On one hand, Metro is spending millions of dollars installing taller faregates designed to stop people from riding without paying. On the other, Mayor Karen Bass says she wants to move Los Angeles toward a future in which nobody pays a fare at all. Both ideas cannot be discussed in isolation. If fare compliance matters enough to justify millions in new infrastructure - and if Metro officials believe controlled access contri
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