Access to Health Care for California Residents Debated

KPCC's "AirTalk" on Monday included a discussion of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) health care agenda for 2007, including plans for reducing costs, expanding coverage and preventing disease.

The program also examined America's Health Insurance Plans' proposal to expand health insurance coverage and the possibility of California adapting a Massachusetts law that requires all uninsured residents to purchase health coverage.

Guests on the program included:

• E. Richard Brown, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research;
  
  
• Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association;
  
  
• Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Los Angeles); and
  
  
• Jordan Rau, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times (Mantle, "AirTalk," KPCC, 11/20).