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A few years ago, while working with some 30 healthcare startups as a director at Kaiser Permanente's venture-capital fund, Shruti Kothari found that policy could make or break a company's ability to bring...

Understanding population health and realizing the goal of health equity require the collection, sharing, and use of comprehensive data – including race, ethnicity, and language (“REaL”) and sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”) data. Yet...

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has illuminated systemic racial and ethnic inequities in our health care system and catalyzed an unprecedented call to action to address their root causes.1 It also has revealed the dearth of reliable and standardized race and...

Blue Shield of California engages in the state budget process each year, supporting policies that ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at an affordable price.

All the data we have shows that primary care is the foundation for a high functioning health care system. It is a “common good,” as advocated by the National Academies for Science, Engineering and Medicine, and the lack of equitable access to primary...

Health care can be overwhelmingly complex, but when it comes to addressing the wide disparities in health access and outcomes exposed by COVID-19, getting started can be as simple as showing each person that they matter. That’s the important lesson we...

In late March, I was honored to speak at the 2022 Northern California State of Reform Health Policy Conference in Sacramento, on their “Innovations in Care Collaboration” panel. I was joined by my fellow panelists Crystal Eubanks of the California...

Blue Shield of California is actively engaging with the California State Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom’s Administration to promote health equity for commercial and Medi-Cal consumers. In particular, Blue Shield of California and Promise Health...

After 24 months of living through a pandemic, the link between our mental and physical health is clearer than ever. What began as a virus of the respiratory system soon caused overwhelming disruption in the structures that ground us – our work, education, social and family connections...