California HealthCare Foundation: Health care reform in California is high on the political agenda, and things are moving fast. CalHealthReform.org was created to help keep Californians up-to-date on the major proposals, analyses, hearings, and news. The site also provides resources to help explain the issues and a discussion forum where you can share your ideas.
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California Health Reform: What’s at Stake for Rural Communities? Prepared by the California State Rural Health Association and funded by The California Endowment, this policy brief examines the impact current health care reform proposals may have on California’s rural areas. The brief also outlines four critical health care issues facing rural residents that are not adequately
addressed in all or some of the current reform proposals: Health Professional Shortages, Adequacy and Affordability of Coverage, Chronic Disease Management and Availability of Health
Insurance Products in Rural Communities. The authors also offer recommendations to legislators.
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The Working Uninsured: An Analysis of Worker Health Coverage Among California Industries from the Center on Policy Initiatives reveals that half of working adults in California receive health insurance through their jobs.
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The State of Health Insurance in California from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research similarly shows that job-based health insurance coverage continues to decline.
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Health Coverage Proposals in California: Impact on Businesses, authored by researchers at UC Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education and funded by The California Endowment, analyzes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's health care reform proposal and Assembly Bill 8 (AB 8). The report finds that these two proposals are likely to have a positive net impact on the state's economy.
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Voters Insist Kids Health Coverage be Part of Health Care Reforms Nearly seven in 10 voters believe that California’s health care system needs significant overhaul and overwhelmingly support major reforms, according to a new nonpartisan survey recently conducted for The California Endowment by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Public Opinion Strategies. In addition, more than 76 percent of those surveyed insist that whatever actions are taken this year by policymakers to reform California’s health care system must include providing health care coverage to all children.
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Health Reform 2007: Impact on the Valley
The Central Valley Health Policy Institute at California State University, Fresno, recently issued the policy brief Health Reform 2007: Impact on the Valley. Funded by The California Endowment, the brief offers a San Joaquin Valley perspective on the various proposed health reform measures currently being debated in California.
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On Aug. 11, 2007 - CaliforniaSpeaks: 3,500 Californians participated in a daylong, statewide conversation about health reform, and they delivered a strong message to policymakers: California's health care system is in need of major changes, and lawmakers should enact health reform this year. The governor and legislative leaders from both parties attended the events, which were co-sponsored by The California Endowment, and committed publicly to delivering a health reform package. Full results of the discussion and a blog post about the day's activities by The Endowment's president and CEO, Robert K. Ross, M.D., are now online.
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