The high cost of health care in Monterey County has drawn a lot of attention in Sacramento, enough to make folks from the state capital travel here to hear first hand from residents how that’s impacted their lives.
Pam Marino here, after attending a health care affordability town hall on Thursday, July 9, inside the Monterey County Board of Supervisors Chambers in Salinas, organized by the advocacy group Health Access California. It was the first in a series of town halls the organization is holding throughout the state in the coming weeks.
In the audience of approximately 60 people on Thursday was incoming Monterey County Superintendent of Schools Dan Burns, Monterey City Councilmember Gino Garcia, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Superintendent PK Diffenbaugh, Seaside Mayor Ian Oglesby and a member of the California Office of Health Care Affordability Board, Ian Lewis…