Zócalo Public SquareWhere Obamacare Isn’t a Dirty Word – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Where Obamacare Isn’t a Dirty Word https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/08/08/where-obamacare-isnt-a-dirty-word/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/08/08/where-obamacare-isnt-a-dirty-word/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Fri, 08 Aug 2014 07:01:02 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=54926 Before Barack Obama was elected president, San Francisco embraced health reform. In 2006, the city rolled out the Healthy San Francisco program with the goal of providing healthcare access to the city’s uninsured population. The program was funded by the city, the federal government, patient co-payments, and fees paid by San Francisco businesses. And once Obamacare plans were set up in California, one of the earliest states to embrace the controversial health legislation, the city’s health centers and health leaders encouraged people to sign up. This hasn’t been the case in many other American states and cities that are still resisting Obamacare. In advance of the Zócalo/The California Wellness Foundation Event, “What Can Obamacare Learn from San Francisco?”, we asked health policy experts: Based on your experience with health reform in San Francisco, how would you improve Obamacare’s implementation?

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]]> Before Barack Obama was elected president, San Francisco embraced health reform. In 2006, the city rolled out the Healthy San Francisco program with the goal of providing healthcare access to the city’s uninsured population. The program was funded by the city, the federal government, patient co-payments, and fees paid by San Francisco businesses. And once Obamacare plans were set up in California, one of the earliest states to embrace the controversial health legislation, the city’s health centers and health leaders encouraged people to sign up. This hasn’t been the case in many other American states and cities that are still resisting Obamacare.

In advance of the Zócalo/The California Wellness Foundation Event, “What Can Obamacare Learn from San Francisco?”, we asked health policy experts: Based on your experience with health reform in San Francisco, how would you improve Obamacare’s implementation?

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