274759 Crossing the Country Without a Map: Challenges and Opportunities for Labor in Implementing the Largest Federal Program in 50 Years from Scratch

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Sara Nichols, JD , Government Relations Advocate, SEIU California State Council, Sacramento, CA
Labor is facing many questions as it works to build the California Exchange and Medicaid expansion. This presentation will examine some of these questions, including whether to opt for the Basic Health Plan, how to protect the health care safety net, and how to enroll millions easily and effortlessly into coverage.

Learning Objectives:
Describe how organized labor is working to protect the health care safety net. Describe how organized labor will work to enroll millions of people into health care coverage.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Sara has spent nearly 20 years working for universal health care coverage, first as a staff attorney at Public Citizen's Congress Watch fighting for single payer health care during the Clinton health debate, as Washington Director of Physicians for a National Health Program, and later as a committee consultant for the California Assembly Health Committee and a lobbyist for the California Nurses Association.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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