Gov Brown Signs Budget Plan
| June 28, 2012 | Posted by Susan Hagos under Blog |
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On Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a budget plan for the 2012-2013 fiscal year that included cuts to healthcare and a tax hike to be voted on in November. If the tax hike does not pass, roughly $5.9 billion will be cut from public schools. This decision was deemed necessary… more
Affordable Care Act Ruled Constitutional
| June 28, 2012 | Posted by Lucien Wulsin under Blog |
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Today the Supreme Court ratified 100 years of efforts to assure that every American has access to medical care. These are efforts from Democratic and Republican Presidents, Governors and legislative leaders from Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt through Presidents Truman, Nixon and Clinton, from California Governors Earl Warren and Arnold… more
$7 Million Granted to Community Clinics in L.A. County
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by Veronika Kiselev under Blog |
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$7 million of Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding was awarded to twelve Los Angeles County Community Clinics on June 21, 2012. In this wave of funding, 25 clinics across California received a total of $15 million to help create new clinics, expand existing ones and provide new jobs for doctors,… more
June Exchange Board Meeting #2: Service Center Options
| June 25, 2012 | Posted by Kiwon Yoo under Blog |
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The second board meeting in June was largely around service center design and options, which will be critical in providing toll-free customer support when the Exchange is operational. Prior to this discussion, Peter Lee summarized a draft of the Exchange by-laws and outlined the schedule for the upcoming months in his… more
Enrollment Data for California’s Low-Income Health Programs
| June 22, 2012 | Posted by Kandis Driscoll under Blog |
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California’s §1115 Medicaid Waiver acts as a stepping-stone for implementing provisions of the ACA. The Waiver allows counties to cover indigent adults (who will be eligible for Medicaid expansions in 2014) early through Low-Income Health Programs (LIHPs) by providing a federal match on county funds used to care for MIAs. Counties… more
New budget deal proposal sparks healthcare debate in California
| June 22, 2012 | Posted by Susan Hagos under Blog |
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On Thursday, the governor and legislative leaders presented a new budget deal, which included a proposal to shift all 880,000 children currently enrolled in the state’s Healthy Families program to Medi-Cal. The attempt to close California’s projected $15.7 billion budget deficit also includes a reduction in childcare assistance and college… more
In Praise of the Affordable Care Act – Medicaid
| June 21, 2012 | Posted by Lucien Wulsin under Blog |
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There have been widely reported, continuous attacks on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but relatively little review of its important progress. This series will summarize some of that progress here in California. This report reviews California’s progress on the Medicaid expansion, improvements and simplification authorized by the ACA. Most of… more
In Praise of the Affordable Care Act – The Exchange
| June 20, 2012 | Posted by Lucien Wulsin under Blog |
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There have been widely reported, continuous attacks on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but relatively little review of its important progress. This series will summarize some of that progress here in California. This paper reviews the progress of the California Health Benefits Exchange – a purchasing pool for small employers… more
ACA and the Supreme Court
| June 19, 2012 | Posted by Lucien Wulsin under Blog |
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I had a sleepless night last night anticipating the Supreme Court’s decision in Florida v. HHS on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Memories of some extraordinarily bad Supreme Court decisions ran through my head. The first was the Lochner… more
In Praise of the Affordable Care Act – Insurance Reforms
| June 18, 2012 | Posted by Lucien Wulsin under Blog |
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There have been widely reported, continuous attacks on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but relatively little review of its important progress. This series will summarize some of that progress here in California and the issues still in contention. Today’s report looks at insurance reforms. Insurance Reforms Children. The ACA requires… more
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