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Q&A: Representative Eileen Cody on the 2021 session Sydney Kurle | Apr 28, 2021 Share this: Representative Eileen Cody was raised on her family’s farm in Iowa. After earning her associate’s and a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, Cody began a 40 year career in nursing at Kaiser Permanente in Seattle. In addition to her work at Kaiser Permanente, Cody is a founding member of the District 1199 NW/SEIU Hospital and Health Care Employees Union. First appointed and subsequently elected to the House of Representatives in 1994, Cody has dedicated her legislative career to achieving affordable, quality health care for all residents of Washington State. ....
1. Rep. Eileen Cody, session in review Washington’s 2021 legislative session wrapped up over the weekend, concluding what was an impressive session for progressives. We caught up with Rep. Eileen Cody, Chair of the House Health Care & Wellness Committee, to get her take on the health policy themes that emerged this session. Cody says health equity, the COVID-19 response, and public health were some of the top issues in the health care sphere. She also described Sen. David Frockt’s Cascade Care bill as one of the biggest health policy bills to move forward this year (more on that below). As it relates to the budget, she says funding for mental health and substance use disorder were probably the biggest adds, along with public health support and funding for exchange subsidies. “I would say that there wasn’t a lot of glitz to the things that happened in health care this year, but certainly it got a huge infusion of money.” ....
by Rich Smith • Apr 27, 2021 at 6:59 am It s gonna be Joe v Dow. Courtesy of the Campaign Today at 11:30 a.m. Washington state Senator Joe Nguyen will stand before a physically distant, masked-up crowd at Hing Hay Park and announce his plan to run for King County Executive, a seat Dow Constantine has held without too much trouble since the last recession tore through budgets 12 years ago. Over the phone, Nguyen said he wants to dip from the Legislature because the pandemic exposed what so many in our communities already knew, which was that this was an inequitable system, and that for far too long we’ve had leaders that aren’t delivering for us. ....
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