CALmatters Health Journalist Elizabeth Aguilera

The Strangest, Most Surreal Place Was New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina

Elizabeth Aguilera is an award-winning multimedia journalist who covers health and social services for CALmatters. Previously, she produced stories about community health for Southern California Public Radio/KPCC 89.3, where her reporting revealed lead-tainted soil on school campuses near a former lead battery recycling plant. She was also a reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune and The Denver Post. Before moderating a Zócalo/The California Wellness Foundation event titled “How Are Immigrants Changing Our Definition of Health?” she spoke in the green room about public housing in Denver, a meal in Sicily, …

April 12, 2019

My Doubts About Single-Payer Just Show I’m Sick in the Head

California's Newest Litmus Test Requires Support of Government Healthcare—or Else

By Joe Mathews | October 9, 2017

I’m so disappointed in myself.

I really should be 100 percent supportive of the effort to establish a single-payer health system in California. Because all the best Californians are for it. …

California’s Single Payer Health Care Bill Is Dead on Arrival

The Senate Democrats' Proposal Is Illegal, Unworkable, and Ignores Other Nations' Useful Models

By Micah Weinberg | June 9, 2017

I am a lifelong Democrat who has been working hard for more than a decade to improve the policies and build the coalitions necessary for the success of the Affordable …

Obamacare Is Turning Us Into a Better Hospital

Thousands of Newly Insured Patients Are Making Our Medical Center More Efficient and Creative

by Chester Kunnappilly | December 27, 2014

The holidays are a convenient time to take stock of our blessings and opportunities, and to consider the challenges we have overcome in the previous year. As I reflect back, …

You Have the Right To Be Sick—But Not On My Patients

California’s Tolerance of Unvaccinated Healthcare Workers Is Endangering the Rest of Us

October 11, 2012

Last week in my clinic, I saw a patient with AIDS. As part of this visit, my patient was examined by a medical assistant who had a cough and sniffles. …

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