This week, the Assembly Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage held two hearings to continue the conversation about how California can achieve universal health coverage. It is the hope of the committee that these hearings will set the framework that will inform how the Assembly can pursue policy solutions towards universal […]
Speaker Rendon Announces Fall Hearings on Health Care for All
Yesterday, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced a series of hearings this fall to “develop plans for achieving universal health care in California. Chaired by Dr. Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) and Dr. Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), the new Assembly Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage, will investigate both obstacles and options on health care. Here’s the statement: […]
Statement on Next Steps to Universal Coverage
From: Health Access California, California Immigrant Policy Center, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, and Western Center on Law and Poverty “As health care consumer advocacy organizations, we are committed to universal health coverage, supporting single-payer proposals, Health4All expansions, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid and Medicare. Since November, we have been first focused on the federal fight to protect millions of […]
New #CBOScore Shows Awful Cost and Coverage Impacts of #AHCA
New estimates released today by the Congressional Budget Office show that with the more recent amendments, the GOP’s American Health Care Act as passed in the House of Representatives would still leave 23 million more Americans uninsured within a decade, spiking premiums for million more, and undermine key patient protections on premiums and benefits. In […]
Legislature Makes Medi-Cal Investments, Including #Health4All Young Adults, Dental, Etc.
On Thursday, the Assembly Budget Committee is slated to vote on key budget proposals for the state’s 2017-18 Budget, including investments for the Medi-Cal program that covers over 14 million Californians, using revenues raised from Proposition 56 tobacco tax approved by voters last year. With some differences, the Assembly action mirrors action Tuesday by […]
Why California’s Past Shows the Danger of #AHCA & the MacArthur Amendment
(From our longtime policy advocate Beth Capell): As we have listened to people in town halls and legislative hearings about the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we have been struck time and again by how vividly consumers remember the pre-ACA world. What they say is some version of “I didn’t have the […]
The Work of the New Year: Protecting and Continuing California’s Progress
As the California Legislature restarted for the new year this week, I wanted to share a portion of my remarks at our 30th Anniversary event for Health Access California last month, where we acknowledged the progress we had made with California’s successful efforts to implement and improve upon the Affordable Care Act, focused on how we […]