Op-Ed: State ‘Well-Positioned’ To Implement Health Reform
California's enrollment system that provides access to Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program; CalFresh, the state's food stamps program; and CalWORKS, the state's welfare-to-work program, "remains the only successful statewide automation of the three major health and human services programs in the state's history," Bruce Wagstaff -- administrator of the Sacramento County Countywide Services Agency and former deputy director of the California Department of Social Services -- writes in a Capitol Weekly opinion piece. Wagstaff adds that this system "has set California up to be well-positioned and ahead of the game ⦠to implement the federal Affordable Care Act, including ⦠a new Health Benefit Exchange."
- "Key to Successful Automation Is State-Counties Partnership" (Wagstaff, Capitol Weekly, 3/10).