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A candid, up-to-the-minute conversation on where the debate stands, what is missing, and how we continue to advocate from here to ensure that the overhaul of our broken healthcare system provides affordable access for all Americans. With Crystal Haling of the Blue Shield Foundation, Roger Hickey of Campaign for America's Future, and Anthony Wright of Health Access California, and moderated by Tom David of the Community Clinics Initiative.
Crystal Hayling has been a leader of philanthropic organizations and an advocate for women, minorities, low-income families, and children for over 20 years. She is currently the President and CEO of Blue Shield of California Foundation where she continues her long-time commitment to helping underserved communities. Previously, Hayling served as the senior advisor for the Marguerite Casey Foundation, and the director of special projects at the California HealthCare Foundation, where she helped establish and run the Oakland-based Medi-Cal Policy Institute, a public policy think-tank dedicated to improving and expanding California's Medicaid program. Hayling has held leadership positions at the California Wellness Foundation and the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. In 2008, she was the recipient of a 10th Anniversary Madame C. J. Walker award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and she is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. For the past three years, Hayling has been honored by San Francisco Business Times as one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business.
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