Consensus Building in Health Care

Learning from Massachusetts

Health care is a top priority for California, but solutions to its critical problems are still challenged by the complex politics of powerful, competing stakeholders and fear of change. New America Foundation presented an insider’s view about how Massachusetts was recently able to overcome similar obstacles and reach bipartisan consensus on a landmark plan for achieving universal health care.

John McDonough, director of Health Care for All in Massachusetts and a former Democratic legislator, is a veteran health care reformer who was instrumental in bringing the two parties together and crafting a compromise agreement with Republican Gov. Mitt Romney.

An MP3 audio recording of this event is available for download.

08/02/2006 - 12:30pm
CSAC Conference Center
1020 11th Street 2nd Floor
Sacramento, CA, 95814
United States
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Participants

  • John McDonough
    Director, Health Care for All
  • Len Nichols
    Director, Health Policy Program