California Must Address a Statewide Latino Physician Shortage

February 13, 2019

California Health Report By Sonja Diaz, Jeffrey Reynoso and Anthony Galace Despite California’s leadership in expanding health coverage to a record number of Californians, we have a crisis that hardly anyone is addressing: Our state still fails to provide the…
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Commentary: Health Care Merger a Poison Pill for Patients

December 6, 2018

ArcaMax By Anthony Galace Big corporations often tout their mergers as promoting efficiency and helping consumers, but too often the public ends up with fewer choices and higher prices. That seems likely to happen again with the latest health care…
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What Do We Have to Lose? Lots! Attack on Obamacare Continues the War on People of Color

March 24, 2017

The Huffington Post  By Orson Aguilar In February, I wrote that the thread that seems to connect nearly all of the policy ideas coming from the Trump administration and Congress seems to be an attack on communities of color. Since…
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Rep. Denham, if You Back Ryan’s Plan Your Constituents Will Suffer

March 22, 2017

The Modesto Bee By Noe Paramo and Anthony Galace Like hundreds of thousands of Valley residents, Mireya Cazares’s life has been changed by federal health-care reform. Born with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that gradually causes sufferers to lose their…
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“Too Big to Fail” Also Applies to Health Care

June 1, 2016

Huffington Post By Orson Aguilar We hear a lot about “too-big-to-fail” banks, and rightly so. It’s time to bring that same discussion to health insurance. Most Americans first learned about too-big-to-fail when financial industry recklessness crashed our economy, causing an…
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The State of Our Fragmented Union

January 12, 2016

The Huffington Post By Orson Aguilar This evening, President Obama will give his final State of the Union address. These addresses often have an optimistic spin, and particularly so as a president nears the end of his term and seeks…
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Can We Talk? Big Business and the Need for Transparency

August 19, 2015

The Huffington Post By Preeti Vissa Knowledge, as they say, is power. But when information is a one-way street, even the smartest minds have trouble making progress. I was reminded of this the other day when I heard of the…
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Learning From Franklin Roosevelt: Trickle-Up Economics

April 9, 2015

The Huffington Post by Preeti Vissa Once upon a time there was a U.S. president who took office during a period of great economic distress, and whose efforts to relieve that distress kicked up fierce opposition. “The president’s recent statements,”…
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At Five Years Old, Obamacare Is Uneven and Incomplete—But It’s Working

March 19, 2015

The Progressive by Orson Aguilar On its fifth anniversary, the secret of Obamacare is that it’s working. The Affordable Care Act, signed into law on March 23, 2010, is doing precisely what it was supposed to do: provide health coverage…
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Last Year, America Discovered Race. Now What?

January 16, 2015

The Huffington Post by Preeti Vissa 2014 was the year the U.S. discovered that race is still an issue in this allegedly “color-blind” society, among other things. It’s become so obvious that it even got noticed during last Sunday’s Golden…
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