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There is a lot of talk about President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion economic plan known as the Build Back Better Agenda, but do you know what’s actually included in the bill? Here are five things you should know about Biden’s Build Back Better proposal.

Southern California union members working at Kaiser Permanente voted in favor of authorizing a strike against the health care company after months of failed negotiations, the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) announced Monday.

NBC 7’s series Breakdown looks into criticism of Kaiser Permanente’s mental health services. NBC 7’s Catherine Garcia reports.

A San Diego woman says Kaiser Permanente denied her the mental health care she needed.

Sharp Healthcare doctor says telehealth visits are here to stay, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little

Telemedicine skyrocketed in popularity in the last year due to the coronavirus pandemic and because of it’s convenience, one local doctor thinks it’s here to stay.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the Health and Human Services Agency’s Behavioral Health Services division, under an agreement announced Wednesday, will seek to develop a better way to provide behavioral and physical health services in the county’s seven detention facilities.

Local leaders announced efforts to improve the mortality rate of inmates in San Diego County jails. NBC 7’s Allie Raffa has more on the program aimed to act as a remedy.

About 40% of caregivers in the U.S. are Millennials. They’ve become known as the “sandwich generation,” stuck with the dual burden of caring for their kids as well as their elderly parents. For Millennials already saddled with student debt, the job can be an emotional and financial struggle. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker reports on the unpaid job so many young...

Illinois is leading a handful of Democratic-run states in extending health insurance coverage to adult immigrants living in the country illegally, including seniors.

The pandemic prevented many health care workers from celebrating any holidays during 2020, so one San Diego ICU doctor decided to make up for lost time in a big way.

After a grueling year and a half due to the pandemic, local health care workers are realizing just how much they’ve missed out on. NBC 7’s Allie Raffa spoke with a local ICU doctor who honored his fellow health care workers with a celebratory night.

The University of California’s governing board has adopted a new policy that tightens the rules on affiliations with hospitals that impose religious restrictions on health care

President Joe Biden has turned to his old boss for help encouraging Americans to sign up for the Obama-era health law during an expanded special enrollment period in the pandemic

Anything from diagnosis records to insurance data may have been stolen. NBC 7’s Dave Summers spoke to an identity theft expert about the dangers.

More than 147,000 patients had their personal and financial information compromised during last month’s devastating cyberattack on Scripps Health internal systems, the health care group confirmed Tuesday.

A Scripps representative would not confirm to NBC 7 that the malware was contained and said that no updates could be provided, reports NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda.

Scripps Health employees have regained access to some internal systems weeks after a cyberattack on their technology servers forced the health system to go offline, according to an internal communication obtained by NBC 7.

One of San Diego’s main health care systems, Scripps Health, had its technology servers hacked on May 1.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are almost 3 million nurses working in the United States, making it the country’s largest health care workforce.