The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is withholding more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the administration suspects widespread fraud and noncompliance in both states.
Every California family with private health insurance is about to see their premiums jump by roughly $400 a year, courtesy of what the California Taxpayers Association is calling "the largest tax increase in state history."
A California school board member who championed parental rights is on track to win statewide office, so Sacramento is racing to strip that office of its power before she can take it.