Changemakers
Uniting voices. Driving policy. Changing health care for all.
2025
Legislative Policy & Advocacy
Add your voice, connect with others, and take action to shape a better healthcare system for all Californians.
Supported
- SB 41 (Wiener) Sponsored bill — Pharmacy Benefits Managers
- SB 40 (Wiener) — Health Care Coverage: Insulin
- SB 363 (Wiener) Sponsored bill– Health Care Coverage: Independent Medical Review (IMR) – two year bill
- SB 535 (Richardson) Sponsored bill — Obesity Treatment Parity Act – two year bill
Opposed
STORIES OF
HEALTH JOURNEYS
Authentic and uplifting, these personal stories inspire understanding, remind us of the strength we all carry and stir us to make things better for those suffering.
The Future Of
Healthcare
Providing affordable, patient-centered access to all three levels of prevention is cost-effective over the course of the disease or condition by reducing or eliminating unnecessary hospitalizations, improving medication management, surgery, physician visits, recovery and nursing home placement. When prevention is not affordable or too difficult to access, patients forgo necessary testing, prescriptions, or medical visits, and their medical conditions ultimately worsen. Together we can advocate for a healthier future.
Healthcare
Reform
Chronic conditions represent the highest cost of health care dollars with the greatest potential of preventability and those with those conditions need the most care and often have more than one chronic condition.
Yet, treatments are currently disease-specific, implying there are no strategic commonalities and often providers for a patient’s multiple conditions don’t coordinate effectively. This exclusionary filter extends to relationships between policy, provider and disease-specific consumer organizations. In reality, there are macro issues that all of these organizations (and their constituencies) have in common. Few organizations are large enough to affect change at the macro level which includes legislation, regulation and business practice.
The California Chronic Care Coalition’s (CCCC) success has been in bringing these siloed issues and organizations together in membership to share their diverse perspectives of chronic illness, harnessing their commonalities to affect policy change, at the social and legislative levels including state and federal policy.
If you’d like to help with advocacy or learn more about it, send us a note.