Ana B. Ibarra covers health care for CalMatters. Her reporting largely focuses on issues around access to care and affordability.
She played a leading role in CalMatters’ coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, following stories from the early days when California had only 200 test kits on hand, to the aftermath, as patients dealt with lingering symptoms and underwent lung transplants. She was part of a CalMatters team whose pandemic coverage was recognized by the California News Publishers Association in 2021.
Before joining CalMatters, Ana worked as a reporter at KFF Health News, where she covered the Legislature and California health agencies. In her first reporting gig, Ana covered health and general assignments at the Merced Sun-Star. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and other state and national news outlets.
She graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles.
About 80 Californians die every year after contracting Valley fever, a fungal disease that typically affects the lungs. A recent outbreak was traced to a music festival in Kern County.
El gobernador Gavin Newsom firmó una ley que encaminó a los trabajadores de la salud hacia un salario mínimo de 25 dólares. Luego, los legisladores lo retrasaron, pero algunos hospitales están aumentando los salarios antes de lo previsto.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that set health care workers on a path to a $25 minimum wage. Lawmakers then delayed it, but some hospitals are raising pay ahead of schedule.
Los aumentos de las primas varían en gran medida según la región y el plan, pero la mayoría de los consumidores recibirán subsidios que los protegerán de aumentos pronunciados.
La escasez de médicos en el Valle de San Joaquín obliga a muchos residentes a abandonar la región en busca de atención médica. Ésta es una de las razones por las que California está desarrollando un programa médico en UC Merced.
A doctor shortage in the San Joaquin Valley drives many residents far out of the region for health care. That's one reason California is developing a medical program at UC Merced.
Cientos de miles de trabajadores de la salud de California esperan obtener un aumento en virtud de una nueva ley que les establece un salario mínimo más alto. La ley tiene una serie de variables, incluido cuándo entrará realmente en vigor.
Hundreds of thousands of California health care workers expect to get a raise under a new law that sets a higher minimum wage for them. The law has a number of variables, including when it will actually take effect.