A broad coalition of health care officials and advocates will come together in Los Angeles to urge state elected officials to move quickly to expand Medi-Cal or risk losing hundreds of millions of federal dollars for California. 

Action has stalled on a critical piece of California’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act.  If legislation to expand Medi-Cal is not signed into law in the next 6 weeks, over one million low-income, working people will be left without coverage as healthcare reform is implemented. For each month of delay, California will lose hundreds of millions of federal dollars. 

SPEAKERS:         

• Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas (invited) 
• Supervisor Gloria Molina (invited) 
• Dr. Mitch Katz, Director of L.A. County Health Department
• Nita Thompson, Healthy Way L.A. Consumer/Patient
• Wendy Lazarus, Founder and Co-President, The Children’s Partnership
• Robin Ellis, Registered Nurse Practitioner, LAC-USC
• Nancy M. Gomez, Southern CA Program Director, Health Access