0 Politics & Government With 94% of residents covered, fewer people received routine check-ups, primarily due to concerns over COVID-19. Times of San Diego News Partner Posted Reply By Editor, Times of San Diego September 27, 2021 Californians reached record health insurance coverage in 2020, with 94% of residents covered, but fewer people received routine check-ups, primarily due to concerns over COVID-19, researchers found. The 2020 California Health Interview Survey includes data from 22,661 California households, including 21,949 adults, 1,365 adolescents and 3,548 children. Of adults participating in the survey, 67.9% had a preventive care visit in 2020, down from 71.1% in 2019. The 2020 results mark the lowest number since 2013. More than 21% cited COVID-19 as the main reason they delayed or went without medical care in 2020. But for adults 65 and up, 55.2% said COVID-19 was the main reason for … [Read more...]

Karen Krajcer and Linzy Foster are two friends familiar with the hallways of the Texas Capitol. During this year’s regular legislative session and two subsequent special sessions that followed, the two mothers have shown up with a handful of other parents to advocate for their children who have been caught in the crosshairs of a slew of bills that target young transgender Texans. Now, with the Legislature’s third special session underway, the two friends are enduring another round of visits and demonstrations as legislators again debate a top Republican legislative priority: restricting transgender youth from playing on sports teams that are consistent with their gender identity. “It just keeps on happening, it’s ridiculous,” Krajcer, a mother to a 9-year-old, said about the amount of bills filed during sessions that have targeted LGBTQ Texans. “This is the fourth round this year. … Why are we still having to do this?” So far, the Texas Senate has passed a bill limiting … [Read more...]

At an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the McConnell Center in Louisville, Ky., Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court low on political standing Graham tries to help Trump and McConnell bury the hatchet Are COVID-19 vaccine mandates a strategy to end the pandemic? MORE delivered a speech saying, “My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks.” This remarkable line came just days after Barrett joined a 5-4 majority upholding a Texas law seeking to overturn Roe v. Wade by empowering citizens to sue anyone who assists in an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, even if it was the result of rape or incest. Justice Stephen Breyer Stephen Breyer Barrett: Supreme Court 'not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks' Sunday shows - Manchin says he won't vote for .5 trillion bill Breyer says term limits would 'make life easier for me' MORE wryly observed … [Read more...]

close Video Biden's catch-and-release is a 'magnet' for illegal immigration: Retired Border Patrol agent Rosendo Hinojosa, a retired Border Patrol agent, says it's 'hard to believe' Biden officials don't know how many migrants have been released into the country because every migrant apprehension and release is documented. EXCLUSIVE: The state of Florida is suing the Biden administration over its "illegal" catch-and-release policies at the Southern Border, saying they cause harm to the state's "quasi-sovereign interests," while claiming officials are either in violation of federal immigration law, or simply abusing their authority. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed the suit against the administration Tuesday, as part of a joint effort with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to "uphold the rule of law despite the Biden administration's decision to violate the law." MIGRANT ENCOUNTERS OVER 200,000 AGAIN IN AUGUST, AS BORDER SURGE CONTINUES … [Read more...]

Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and author of the book, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party." Follow him on Twitter @julianzelizer . The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN) On Tuesday, former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama will attend the groundbreaking of the 44th president's center in Chicago. Some of the veterans from his administration will be joining him for a livestream event. "This is not your parents' or your grandparents' presidential library," said Valerie Jarrett , president of the Obama Foundation. The presidential center will include a museum, forum building, public plaza, athletic center, play area and a branch of the Chicago Public Library. The opening comes after controversy. This will be the first presidential library since the start … [Read more...]

Opinion by Nicole Hemmer Updated 1305 GMT (2105 HKT) September 28, 2021 Nicole Hemmer is an associate research scholar at Columbia University with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and the author of " Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. " She co-hosts the history podcasts " Past Present " and " This Day in Esoteric Political History " and is co-producer of the podcast " Welcome To Your Fantasy ." The views expressed in this commentary are those of the author. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN) This fall was supposed to be different. With the new Covid-19 vaccines, the country began to reopen during the summer and vaccine approval for teens (with the hopeful prospect of approval for younger children) promised a return to schools and a return to the pre-pandemic rhythms of life. But then came the Delta variant, and the vaccine resisters, and the state efforts to ban mask and vaccine mandates -- and … [Read more...]