Weekly Edition: Oct. 29, 2021

The top California Healthline stories from the week cover mental health care, pharma donations to Congress and direct primary care.

Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. Not a subscriber? Sign up   WEEKLY Edition A service of the California Health Care Foundation Friday, October 29, 2021 Check California Healthline online for the latest news Full Covid Coverage: California Healthline's Latest Coronavirus Stories California Law Aims to Strengthen Access to Mental Health Services By Bernard J. Wolfson The law doesn't take effect until July, but its passage should force insurers to expand their rosters of therapists. Here's how you can challenge your health plan's mental health services until then. Pharma Campaign Cash Delivered to Key Lawmakers With Surgical Precision By Victoria Knight and Rachana Pradhan and Elizabeth Lucas With an eye to shutting down Medicare drug price negotiations, drug companies and their lobbying groups gave roughly $1.6 million in the first six months of 2021, with Democrats edging closer than they have in a decade to Republicans' total haul. Direct Primary Care, With a Touch of Robin Hood By Bernard J. Wolfson; Photos by Heidi de Marco Some doctors, sick of mainstream health care's red tape, are finding refuge in practices that combine concierge medicine with charity care. California Healthline is an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation. It is produced by KHN, an editorially independent program of the KFF. (c) 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved. Follow us on Twitter | Facebook You are subscribed to this email alert as albarkahslamet.ssss@blogger.com. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive. Or, permanently unsubscribe from all emails. If you need help or have questions, please send an email to subscriptions@californiahealthline.org Please do not reply to this email as this address is not monitored.   California Health Care Foundation | 1438 Webster Street | Oakland, CA 94612