Angela Hart

Angela Hart covers health care politics and policy in California and the West for Kaiser Health News, with a focus on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, government accountability, and political influence. She has been reporting on health care for more than seven years and has won awards for her work on homelessness, public health, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, she worked for Politico, The Sacramento Bee and the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. She was a 2018 Center for Health Journalism Data Fellow and a 2015 California Fellow. She is a Wisconsin native and a military veteran and holds a master’s degree from the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Articles

Demonstrators at a Sacramento rally last year in support of a bill to create a single-payer system in California.

How one reporter got to the heart of California’s single-payer debate

The Sacramento Bee’s Angela Hart shares how she got a handle on a huge story: the potential move to single-payer health care in the nation’s most populous state.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Healthcare Systems & Policy

Will California fail financially without single-payer health care?

The issue of single-payer is front-and-center for gubernatorial candidates as California heads toward the June 5 primary.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Under pressure, California Assembly pitches alternatives to single-payer health care

Healthcare Systems & Policy

Is your health care too expensive? California has some ideas to bring costs down

Health Insurance and Costs

Photo by Renée C. Byer, The Sacramento Bee

Raise taxes or ration health care? Why single-payer won't work in California. Yet

Tremendous uncertainty exists over how a state-based single-payer system would work, but no matter how it's crafted, the costs would be steep.

Poverty and Class

Environmental Health

Health Insurance and Costs

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Chronic Disease

Single-payer bill all but dead this year as California lawmakers craft new health package

Angela Hart's reporting on single-payer health care was undertaken as a 2017 California Data Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

Will California create the nation’s first single-payer health care system?

A proposal from a pair of Southern California lawmakers to establish a single-payer model went nowhere this year. But the political climate in deep-blue California is changing, with some high-profile California politicians now backing the effort.

Health Insurance and Costs

Guadalupe Vargas with her daughter Jaylani, 1, outside their mold covered bedroom window at the Walnut Creek Apartments.

Data forms backbone of investigation into Sonoma’s substandard housing

Bad housing has emerged as a key issue in California's Sonoma County races for elected office since The Press Democrat published a four-part series investigating the prevalence of substandard housing across the county.

Environmental Health

Guadalupe Vargas with her daughter Jaylani, 1, outside their mold covered bedroom window at the Walnut Creek Apartments on Jennings Ave. in Santa Rosa. (John Burgess/The Press Democrat)

Health Equity & Social Justice

Environment & Climate

Tenant-landlord disputes over Sonoma County housing conditions can drag on for years (Part 4)

Short of government action, residents living in substandard housing are banding together or stepping forward on their own to turn up the heat on unresponsive landlords. Some are seeking legal assistance to force repairs, with some cases escalating to lengthy civil lawsuits.

Environmental Health

City of Santa Rose Code Enforcement office Ceci Sevilla posts an eviction order at a home in south Santa Rosa. August 28, 2015. (Kent Porter/Press Democrat)

Children & Families

Community & Public Health

Little or no recourse for Sonoma County renters living in squalor (Part 3)

The government framework set up to protect Sonoma County renters from unsafe and unhealthy living conditions has developed such extensive cracks that it has left many tenants without public recourse save for the court system, where help often comes too late to make fixes or fight evictions.

Housing and Homeslessness

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Angela Hart

Articles

How one reporter got to the heart of California’s single-payer debate

Will California fail financially without single-payer health care?

Under pressure, California Assembly pitches alternatives to single-payer health care

Is your health care too expensive? California has some ideas to bring costs down

Raise taxes or ration health care? Why single-payer won't work in California. Yet

Single-payer bill all but dead this year as California lawmakers craft new health package

Will California create the nation’s first single-payer health care system?

Data forms backbone of investigation into Sonoma’s substandard housing

Tenant-landlord disputes over Sonoma County housing conditions can drag on for years (Part 4)

Little or no recourse for Sonoma County renters living in squalor (Part 3)