Bernard J. Wolfson / California Healthline
Bernard J. Wolfson, senior correspondent and columnist for California Healthline, reports on the business of health care and writes a monthly consumer health column, “Asking Never Hurts.” Previously, he was the business editor of the Orange County Register and its health care reporter. Bernard was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, along with two Register colleagues, for a groundbreaking report on cost versus quality at 30 local hospitals. He also spent seven years as European editor for Market News International in Paris, where he supervised coverage of the eurozone debt crisis. Bernard holds a bachelor’s from the University of California-Berkeley and a master’s in international relations from Johns Hopkins University.
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Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called “the salad bowl of the world.” -
With Trump preparing to reenter the White House, bolstered by Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, expectations are high the GOP will quickly resurrect its long-desired goal of cutting Medicaid.
