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By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California Congratulations to Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, on finally assuming his post in the new legislative session that started yesterday. The Sacramento Bee has a full profile by Steve Wiegand on Senator Steinberg, and an extensive photo gallery by Brian...
By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California Among the positive signs for health reform earlier this month was a New York Times article by Robert Pear, entitled "Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition." The news: the main insurance industry lobby is willing to support...
By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California Some of the players of the federal health reform effort are coming together: A new health reform policy team was announced by President-elect Obama earlier this week, getting good reviews from Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic. Congressman Dingell might still...
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By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California Legislators are flying back in today to vote on a budget proposal before the Thanksgiving holiday, and the end of the current, lame-duck legislative session. What that budget proposal includes is unclear. Rumors include possible revenues (the vehicle license fee?), but...
NEW YORK — Junior DeShawn Sims rolled to the basket, received a pass from redshirt sophomore Anthony Wright and slammed home Michigan's victory over No. 4 UCLA with 34 seconds remaining in the game. But the Bruins refused to give up. On the next possession, UCLA forward Nikola Dragovic hit a 3-pointer, pulling the game back within one point. read more
So. With 14 seconds left Anthony Wright threw a perfect backdoor pass to Deshawn Sims and the table got up and roared and Michigan basketball returned after a long exile. No matter how the Duke game turns out, you should go. Tuesday. Norfolk State. 8:30 PM. Tickets here . Muppets! And, of course, you can't have one without the other… Stu Douglass: that was a terrible, terrible shot. You are awesome....
By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California As the various caucuses at the U.S. House of Representatives make their decisions, California is showing a lot of leadership, and is poised to show more leadership on health care California Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey maintains her position as co-chair of the...
By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California Just in the last year, California has made cuts of over $10 billion to education, health and other vital services. No real revenues were raised, as Republicans held to a "no new taxes" pledge. As a result, we now have a...
• “Lame duck” Legislature called back into special session • $4.5 Billion Proposed in Mid-Year Budget Cuts On Top Of $10 Billion Already Made In 2008-09 Budget • Proposes 1.5-cent sales tax increase, other revenues By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today called lawmakers...
At California Progress Report, Anthony Wright takes issue with a point I made the other day: She suggested that young people would "choose" to go uninsured, as Gov. Romney suggested. As I wrote in her comments section: âTwentysomethings are a disproportionate piece of the uninsured, but it's not because they don't "want" coverage. It's that they are [...]
At California Progress Report, Anthony Wright takes issue with a point I made the other day: She suggested that young people would "choose" to go uninsured, as Gov. Romney suggested. As I wrote in her comments section: “Twentysomethings are a disproportionate piece of the uninsured, but it's not because they don't "want" coverage. It's that they are [...]
By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California In defending the McCain health plan, top McCain advisor Doug Holtz-Eakin may have said too much about the plan, giving CNN's Tami Luhby a quote that reveals the key problem with the McCain health plan: “Changing the tax treatment wouldn't hurt...
By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California Judging from some surprised E-mails that I have received, there are some needed corrections and clarifications to Dan Walters' recent Sacramento Bee column on health care policies and politics. He mentions "health-access advocates" but has never called anyone at our organization,...
