{"id":427984,"date":"2026-08-09T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427984\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:00:20","slug":"california-nearly-achieved-universal-healthcare-now-millions-are-losing-coverage-the-mendocino-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427984\/","title":{"rendered":"California nearly achieved universal healthcare. Now, millions are losing coverage \u2022 The Mendocino Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-white-color has-primary-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-b336a5dd67ddf61d2e809aec3d33f0f2 wp-block-paragraph\">This was written by staff at the nonprofit newsroom CalMatters. It was republished by The Mendocino Voice in partnership with CalMatters to bring relevant nonpartisan news to Mendocino County readers. Learn more about CalMatters <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years ago, California hit a\u00a0milestone decades\u00a0in the making:\u00a0Nearly every\u00a0person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state\u2019s insured rate to a record 95%. Now that progress is unravelling.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for FREE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human! Sign in to keep reading and receive our weekday newsletter in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mendovoice.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKristen Hwang is a health reporter for CalMatters covering health care access, abortion and reproductive health, workforce issues, drug costs and emerging public health matters. Her series on soaring rates&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mendovoice.com\/author\/kristen-hwang-calmatters\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Kristen Hwang, CalMatters\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was written by staff at the nonprofit newsroom CalMatters. It was republished by The Mendocino Voice in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,6752,457,14,1755],"class_list":["post-427984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-calmatters","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-immigration","tag-medi-cal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}