About: Mallory Warner, Health Policy Research Fellow
Mallory Warner, J.D., is a Graduate Research Fellow for The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition. She currently works on the Database of State Laws Impacting Healthcare Cost and Quality (SLIHCQ). Mallory graduated from UC Hastings with honors in 2019 with a concentration in Law and Health Sciences. Throughout law school Mallory worked as an Advanced Clinical Law Student for the Medical Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic and also as a Research Assistant for the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium. As a Research Assistant, Mallory worked on a housing conservatorship bill that had legal implications for those suffering from mental illness and addiction. She received a Community Public Interest Award in her last year of law school for her advocacy for the underserved in San Francisco. Mallory earned her BA from the State University of New York College at Geneseo where she majored in Sociology and Political Science and ran for the nationally ranked cross country team.The California Budget During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Balancing Act
Mallory Warner, Health Policy Research Fellow July 15, 2020
The world in January was a very different place than the world today. The effects of the pandemic-induced recession are clearly reflected in the California budget. In January, California was projected to have a surplus of $5.6 billion. By the Governor’s May Revision, however, the state was facing an estimated deficit of $54.3 billion.[1] The difference of $60 billion in four short months was created by the COVID-19 crisis. As a result, legislative priorities from the beginning of the year inevitably shifted, as the Assembly and Senate approved a $202.1 …
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