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USC students discuss health care policy with legislators<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n Larissa Puro<\/span>\n \n July 06, 2018<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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Students at the Keck School of Medicine of USC do more than learn to be physicians: A group of them got a taste of government policymaking after meeting with state legislators in Sacramento on June 6 and 7.
\nTo give students firsthand experience in working with policymakers, Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences Michael Cousineau<\/a>, DPH, regularly takes students on a trip to the capital as part of his Public Health Policy and Politics class, not just to meet state lawmakers but to seriously discuss health care policy concerns with them.
\nCousineau\u2019s most recent trip brought 10 policy students \u2014 eight MD\/MPH students, one social work student and a PhD candidate \u2014 to the Capitol for one-on-one meetings with their individual elected representatives.
\n\u201cMost of our work has been on access to care \u2014 financial needs, insurance coverage, Obamacare,\u201d Cousineau said. \u201cIncreasingly, you have people with insurance cards, but they don\u2019t know how to get access or make appointments.\u201d
\nFocusing on vulnerable groups in L.A. County<\/strong>
\nMost of Cousineau\u2019s work has been in Los Angeles County, including issues involving vulnerable groups such as immigrants and the homeless.
\n\u201cBeyond issues of access \u2014 how to get people coverage financially \u2014 and assurance \u2014 making sure people actually get the coverage \u2014 a lot of these issues are driven by state policy and increasingly by federal policy,\u201d Cousineau said, adding that federal changes to the Affordable Care Act have caused state policymakers to scramble to find ways to continue coverage for Californians.
\nBefore the trip, students are assigned to first make an appointment with their own regional representatives \u2014 ideally, one Democrat and one Republican. Cousineau said that, contrary to what one might expect, it\u2019s more effective for USC students to not identify themselves as such.
\n\u201cYou say, \u2018I\u2019m a constituent,\u2019 and remember that they work for us,\u201d he said.
\nCousineau estimates that about two-thirds of his students succeed in getting one-on-one face time scheduled in Sacramento. For the rest, Cousineau intercedes with assistance from the USC staff in state government affairs at the Capitol. He also schedules a group meeting with a senior legislator involved in health care policy.
\n\u201cI take them through the steps: This is how you make an appointment, this is how you go into the legislature, and what you say \u2014 and what you don\u2019t say,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are lifetime skills.\u201d
\nAhead of their meetings, Cousineau counsels students with the acronym PPO: prepared, professional and on time.
\nUSC medical students meet lawmakers, discuss single-payer proposal<\/strong>
\nWith support from the Keck School, this summer\u2019s participants flew to Sacramento for two days and met as a group with Democratic Assemblyman Jim Wood, co-chair of the special committee formed in the wake of last year\u2019s failure in the Legislature to enact a single-payer health plan. Cousineau said students focused on the state\u2019s response to the lack of federal support for the Affordable Care Act, specifically: If we\u2019re not going to do a single-payer plan, under which the state would handle all health care funding and payments centrally, what are we going to do?
\nWood took the students seriously enough to extend his planned 20-minute meeting to an hour and ask them to send their final course project, Cousineau said. Other legislators found themselves drawn into earnest discussions with students about health care policy.
\n\u201cThey take us seriously,\u201d Cousineau said, \u201cbecause these aren\u2019t just students. They\u2019re medical professionals who have clinical training and research skills with real patients and projects. It\u2019s good to have all the data, but the personal anecdotes are often what gets policy makers\u2019 attention.\u201d
\nIn return, Cousineau said he hopes that personally meeting legislators with practicing medical backgrounds \u2014 Wood is a dentist \u2014 will inspire some of the students to run for office themselves.
\n\u201cWe met with [state Sen.] Richard Pan,\u201d he said. \u201cHere\u2019s this guy who was a practicing pediatrician for 15 years and decided to run for office. One of the students came away saying, \u2018I could do this. 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