With health care costs skyrocketing, lawmakers shouldn't make matters worse by forcing expansions of care.

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to reshape New York’s insurance laws, much to Uber’s delight. Trial lawyers aren’t happy.

As a record-breaking mid-March heat wave grips California and much of the western United States, state legislators are ...

The idea of a government-run universal health care program that would replace private insurance as the sole payer of health care costs faces as many headwinds as ever. It had fallen onto the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom presides over a broad set of self-inflicted challenges –– each one a monument to bad policy, grandiose ego, ...

Americans are furious about drug prices.

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

The Yankee Institute's Megan Portfolio says Connecticut is adopting a host of policies from California despite their poor ...

Lately, Priscilla Brown has had to choose between properly managing her Type 2 diabetes and affording other necessities, like ...

Disaster costs fell in the U.S. in 2025. Still, it was the fourth time in five years that extreme weather inflicted more than $100 billion in annual losses. Industry experts say the growing financial ...

Private insurers are fleeing the high-risk war zone of the Persian Gulf, so the U.S. government has stepped in to provide emergency political risk insurance to continue global trade. This ensures that ...

The Labor Department deployed a "strike team" to California to address federal findings of improper payments and alleged fraud within the state’s unemployment insurance (UI) program. California has ...