The Margolin Group, Inc. provides our clients with public policy services in both California and Washington, D.C. We offer policy analysis, strategic planning as well as direct advocacy services in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C.

Burt Margolin, the President of the Margolin Group, is a former Member of the California State Assembly and a former Chief of Staff for Congressman Henry Waxman. The Margolin Group team has deep experience in the development of federal and state health policy.

During Burt Margolin’s twelve-year tenure in the Assembly, he chaired a number of committees including the Assembly Health Committee, the Assembly Insurance Committee and the Budget Subcommittee responsible for health funding. Burt is the author of dozens of State laws including the statute that created the Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program, California’s "patient dumping" law, the Margolin-Greene Workers Compensation Reform law and the landmark California "Bottle Bill," the state’s innovative beverage container recycling program.

Prior to this election to the Assembly, Burt spent seven years on Capitol Hill as the Chief of Staff to Representative Henry A. Waxman (D.CA).

In 1995, he was appointed to the position of Health Czar by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors with broad authority to develop a rescue plan to prevent the closure of County/USC Medical Center, which was facing a record funding shortfall. He led a County team which successfully negotiated with State and Federal officials a Medicaid Waiver which ultimately provided the County health system with over two billion dollars in funding for safety net services.