Lucien Wulsin is the project director of Insure the Uninsured Project and is working on approaches to expand coverage for uninsured working Californians. He is the author of “California at the Crossroads: Choices for Health Care Reform,” a study on California’s options to redesign its health care system. Before chatting about health reform’s implications for California, he took our Green Room Q&A.
Archive for July, 2010
John Arensmeyer
Posted By Zócalo On July 16, 2010John Arensmeyer is the founder and CEO of Small Business Majority, a California-based, national, nonpartisan organization. Prior to starting Small Business Majority, Arensmeyer was the founder and CEO of ACI Interactive, an award-winning international e-commerce company. Before chatting about health reform’s implications for Californians, he took our Green Room Q&A.
Jan Spencley
Posted By Zócalo On July 16, 2010Jan Spencley is the Executive Director of San Diegans for Healthcare Coverage. Jan is also a healthcare consultant with over 35 years in the healthcare industry, including 25 years at UCSD Healthcare. For the past 12 years Jan has been a consultant working with hospitals and health systems, medical groups, community health centers, health plans and local government. Before chatting about health reform’s implications for California, she sat down for our Green Room Q&A.
What Health Reform Means for Californians
Posted By Zócalo On July 15, 2010At 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.”
Salomón Huerta
Posted By Zócalo On July 15, 2010Salomón Huerta started painting for a practical reason. “There were three sisters born before me, and I was the first boy. But once my brother and my little sister came along, I realized I needed to do something to get attention,” Huerta said. Below, Huerta, whose work has appeared at the Whitney Biennial, the Gagosian Gallery, and LACMA, answers our In The Green Room Q&A.





