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California's Efforts To Cover The Uninsured: Successes, Building Blocks, And Challenges
Walter A Zelman1, Lucien Wulsin2
1Walter A. Zelman ( wzelman@calstatela.edu ) is a professor and chair of the Department of Public Health, California State University, Los Angeles.
Health Affairs (Project Hope)
|September 5, 2018
Summary
California
Area of Science:
- Health Policy
- Health Economics
- Public Health
Background:
- California has a long history of striving for universal affordable health coverage.
- Previous attempts, including employer mandates and single-payer systems, were unsuccessful due to financing challenges and legislative hurdles.
- Incremental reforms and lessons learned from past failures informed subsequent policy development.