Healthy California for All Commission
About
The Healthy California for All Commission will work to develop a plan for advancing progress toward achieving a health care delivery system for California that provides coverage and access through a unified financing system, including, but not limited to a single payer financing system.
Read the news release announcing the Healthy California for All Commission.
For questions and inquiries, please contact HealthyCAforAll@chhs.ca.gov.
Reports
An Environmental Analysis of Health Care Delivery, Coverage, and Financing in California
Comments:
- Bajor MD, George EA Comments
- Baur MD, Sonia EA Comments
- California Alliance for Prevention Funding
- California Chiropratic Association EA Comments
- Carter, Marilú EA Comments
- Chaney, Carolyn EA Comments
- Conn, Paulina EA Comments
- Conn, Peter EA Comments
- Douglas, John EA Comments
- Greep MD, Nancy EA Comments
- Health Care for All, Physicians for a National Health Program-Humboldt Chapters EA Comments
- Healthcare Action Committee EA Comments
- Healthcare for All Working Group EA Comments
- Healthy California Now EA Comments
- Hoffman MD, Jerome EA Comments
- Karel, Ellen EA Comments
- Li, Jon EA Comments
- Partners in Care Foundation EA Comments
- Physicians for a National Health Program California EA Comments
- Poulsen, Lars EA Comments
- Shostrom, Marian EA Comments
- Statements of Support for a California Wellness Trust EA Comments
- Ward, Ross EA Comments
- Woolery, Barton EA Comments
Comments:
- Commissioner Carmen Comsti – Methods and Assumptions Comments
- Commissioner Robert Ross – Methods and Assumptions Comments
- Commissioner Richard Scheffler – Methods and Assumptions Comments
- Commissioner William Hsiao – Methods and Assumptions Comments
- Greep, Nancy – Methods and Assumptions Comments
- Marquis, Eric – Methods and Assumptions Comments
- B, Jerry – Methods and Assumptions Comments
- California Association of Health Plans and California Association of Health Underwriters – Methods and Assumptions Comments
Response to Comments:
Meeting Information
- Agenda – October 11, 2021
- Virtual Commission Meeting – Presentation
- Public Comments
- Meeting Synopsis
- Commissioner William Hsiao Comments on Fraud and Abuse in Healthcare Claims
Background Reading
- Global Budgets for Rural Hospitals
- Maryland’s All-Payer Approach to Delivery-System Reform
- An Emerging Approach to Payment Reform: All-Payer Global Budgets for Large Safety-Net Hospital Systems
- Health Care Spending, Utilization and Quality 8 Years into Global Payment
- Lower- Versus Higher-Income Populations In The Alternative Quality Contract: Improved Quality And Similar Spending
- Addressing Social Risk Factors in Value-Based Payment: Adjusting Payment Not Performance to Optimize Outcomes and Fairness
September 28, 2021
- Agenda – September 28, 2021
- Virtual Commission Meeting – Presentation
- Commissioner Survey Report – September 2021
- Public Comments
- Meeting Synopsis
September 23, 2021
August 25, 2021
July 8, 2021
June 25, 2021
- Agenda – June 25, 2021
- Virtual Commission Meeting – Presentation
- Roadmap for Future Meetings
- Report from Commissioner Survey on proposed schedule of future meetings
- Definition of Single Payer and How it Compares with Multi-Payer Models
- Additional background reading
- Public Comments
- Meeting Synopsis
May 21, 2021
- Agenda – May 21, 2021
- Virtual Commission Meeting – Presentation
- Unified Financing in California: Estimated Effects on Coverage, Costs, and Equity
- Public Comments
August 13, 2020
- Agenda – August 13, 2020
- Financing Considerations: Background for August 13 Commission Meeting
- Virtual Commission Meeting – Presentation
- An Environmental Analysis of Health Care Delivery, Coverage, and Financing in California
- Public Comments
- Meeting Synopsis
View additional videos from the meeting below:
July 8, 2020
View additional videos from the meeting below:
June 12, 2020
- Agenda – June 12, 2020
- Current State of Health Care in California – Presentation
- An Environmental Analysis of Health Care Delivery Coverage and Financing (DRAFT)
- Public Comments
January 27, 2020
- Agenda – January 27, 2020
- Healthy California for All Commission Charter
- Commission Charge and Role – Alice Hm Chen
- History of Health Reform in California – Kevin Grumbach
- Current State of Health Care in California – Andrew B. Bindman
- Policy Considerations – Rick Kronick
- Meeting Synopsis
To view a recording of the meeting, click here (password: Commission1).
Related Resources
- Virtual Community Engagement Webinar Presentation – Community Voices: Priorities and Preferences of Californians with Low Incomes for Health Care Reform – September 21, 2021
- Final Report – Community Voices: Priorities and Preferences of Californians with Low Incomes for Health Care Reform – October 2021
Commission Members
- Mark Ghaly, MD, MPH. Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency
- Carmen Comsti, JD. Regulatory policy specialist at National Nurses United
- Jennie Chin Hansen, RN. Independent consultant at Hirsch and Associates, LLC
- Sandra R. Hernández, MD. President and CEO of the California Health Care Foundation
- William C. Hsiao, PhD. Research professor of economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Rupa Marya, MD. Associate professor of medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
- Robert K. Ross, MD. President and CEO of The California Endowment
- Richard M. Scheffler, PhD. Distinguished professor of health economics and public policy at the School of Public Health and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley
- Andy Schneider, JD. Research professor of the practice at the Center for Children and Families in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
- Caroline (Cara) Dessert, Esq. (Senate) CEO of The San Diego LGBT Community Center
- Sara Flocks, MPA. (Senate) Founder and partner at Union Made
- Antonia Hernández, JD. (Assembly) President and CEO of the California Community Foundation
- Anthony E Wright. (Assembly) Executive director of Health Access California
- Michelle Baass. Director of the California Department of Health Care Services
- Peter V. Lee, JD. Executive director of Covered California
- Donald B. Moulds, PhD. Chief health director of CalPERS
- Richard Pan, MD, MPH. State Senator representing California’s 6th Senate district, chair of the Senate Committee on Health
- Jim Wood, DDS. Assemblymember representing California’s 2nd Assembly District, chair of the Assembly Health Committee
To learn more about the commission members, read their biographies.