What Health Reform Means for Californians
At 2,500 pages of legislation and even more pages of still unwritten regulation, health reform isn’t easy to comprehend. But we can be sure of two things, as Duke Helfand, a Los Angeles Times health reporter, explained. “It has great potential to open access to care for millions of people,” he said. “But the criticism is it doesn’t do enough to tackle and address the underlying costs of that care.” At an event made possible by the California HealthCare Foundation and moderated by Helfand, the California HealthCare Foundation’s Marian Mulkey, …
