Tag: health and human services
Healthcare Price Transparency Empowers Consumers to Make the Best Health and Financial Decisions
With a new president and a renewed call for national unity, now is the time to prioritize bipartisan solutions that help all Americans. At the top of this list is fixing the American healthcare system, which is plagued by high...
AG Xavier Becerra Named As Biden HHS Secretary
On Monday, presumed President-elect Joe Biden picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), a move that would leave open a key Constitutional office in California. Becerra, who also served in the...
California’s Coronavirus By the Numbers
Only a few blocks away food service employees, bartenders, waiters, bakery workers, ice cream parlor employees, barbers and hair stylists, day spa workers and estheticians, boutique and retail clerks, seamstresses, Uber and Lyft drivers, manufacturing employees, and gym employees, aren’t...
Coronavirus and Leviathan: Is Gov. Newsom Exploiting a Crisis to Expand State Government Power?
Executive Order N-25-20, issued on March 12 by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, “readies state to commandeer hotels & medical facilities to isolate & treat COVID-19 patients,” and also “readies the state to commandeer property for temporary residences and medical facilities...
Coronavirus Hysteria: The Numbers Don’t Warrant the Media Hype
Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in California because of the 114 reported cases of the coronavirus in the state of 40 million residents. Was this to play into the hand of the media, which has hyped...
California Budget Larded With Billions in Record Pork Spending: Dog park, Sculpture Garden, Parking Lot?
In June, California Globe covered in great detail the record number of local pork-barrel projects injected by individual legislators into California’s largest state budget ever of $215 billion. All of the pork in this budget as California Globe has reported, are...