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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Hadwick</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 1000 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Health care: unified health care financing. </ns0:Subject>
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<html:p> Existing law requires the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency to research, develop, and pursue discussions of a waiver framework in consultation with the federal government with the objective of a health care system that incorporates specified features and objectives, including, among others, unified financing and a comprehensive package of medical, behavioral health, pharmaceutical, dental, and vision benefits, and the absence of cost sharing for essential services and treatments. Existing law makes related findings and declarations. </html:p>
<html:p>This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those findings and declarations. </html:p>
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<html:p>The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:</html:p>
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(a)
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The Healthy California for All Commission, established by the Governor and the Legislature, endorsed a system of unified health care financing that is accessible, affordable, equitable, high quality, and universal.
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(b)
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The commission described the present health care system as one that is fragmented, wasteful, and disproportionately harmful to low-income Californians and communities of
color and provided the rationale for a new single, government-administered funding system.
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(c)
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The commission found that a unified financing system would create significant opportunities to deliver health care more effectively, efficiently, and equitably.
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(d)
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California could save more than five hundred billion dollars ($500,000,000,000) over the next decade if a unified health care financing system is implemented, with overall costs lower even after most of those savings go to minimize consumer cost sharing and expand long-term care supports and services to all Californians.
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(e)
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The report by the commission calls for the elimination of corporate profitmaking as the basis of health care decisions.
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(f)
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The magnitude of the change from the status quo in
cost savings and positive impact on Californians’ access to health care services that the commission contemplates represents a profound breakthrough in health policy and would establish California as the nation’s leader in pursuing health equity.
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(g)
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Federal engagement is critical to the process of developing the framework for a waiver that would provide program approval and full federal financial participation in a unified health care financing system for California.
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(h)
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The commission’s recommendations for a health care system with unified financing that guarantees all Californians the benefit of a standard, comprehensive package of health care services points the way toward better care at lower cost for our state’s residents.
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(i)
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Based on these findings, the Legislature endorses a health care system with unified
financing, such as a single-payer health care system, to provide accessible, affordable, equitable, and high-quality health care for all Californians.
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