
Alston & Bird and the California Endowment hosted this event addressing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the California Health Benefit Exchange, mandates, court challenges and more. Top health care policy leaders discussed how California is meeting challenges and where we are headed. The following questions were covered during the program.
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What is California's health care future?
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How will the Health Benefit Exchange get us there?
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What is the federal perspective on California's approach?
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How will uncertainty and court challenges at the federal level affect California?
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What if mandates are stricken from federal law?
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Who will be covered and who will be left out?
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How will prevention and public health be improved?
December 1, 2011
Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza / Los Angeles, CA
4:30pm-7:00pm
Susan Kennedy, Senior Policy Advisor at Alston & Bird (and former Chief of Staff to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), was joined by Jennifer Kent, Principal – Health Management Associates, Peter Lee, Executive Director – California Health Benefit Exchange, and Carmen R. Nevarez, MD, MPH, Vice President for External Relations and Preventive Medicine Advisor –Public Health Institute. Jon Gordon, Partner at Alston & Bird, served as the moderator.
Photos from this event appeared in the Daily Journal and the Los Angeles Business Journal.
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