Ted Stroll was born in Vancouver, Canada. He earned a bachelor's degree from Williams College in 1978, a graduate degree from Columbia University in 1983, and a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1987. His career experience includes working as a judicial staff attorney in the California Supreme Court and the California Court of Appeal and translating Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Stroll as been affiliated with the Sustainable Trails Coalition.
A legislative proposal for the state to take over health care, accompanied by enormous tax increases, was rushed along with little debate. It failed, but it is likely to be revived.
What if providers like Kaiser Permanente no longer exist, a state budget crisis leads to health-care cuts, and you have to wait months to be helped for back pain or fading eyesight?
The current healthcare system isn’t perfect, but with employer-provided insurance, Obamacare and Covered California we have made a lot of progress. At last report, 94% of Californians had health insurance. Let’s collaborate to make healthcare coverage even better.