Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration Friday reversed course on his plan to divert public health dollars from several California counties to help provide health coverage to young adults who are in the country illegally.A law is not a new hospital, yet. A law becomes a new hospital when it has a reliable tax steam, otherwise a law is nothing more than infinite legal hassles around California.
The administration heeded the alarm sounded by Sacramento, Placer, Santa Barbara and Stanislaus counties, which had warned that the governor’s plan would compromise their ability to cope with surging rates of sexually transmitted diseases and, in some cases, measles outbreaks.
“The Administration has subsequently reevaluated this proposal due to the potential negative impacts to public health activities in these counties,” Vivek Viswanathan, chief deputy director of the state Department of Finance, wrote in a letter Friday to the chairs of the state Assembly and Senate Budget Committees.
Sacramento County, for example, estimates it would have lost roughly $7.5 million that goes toward operating its STD clinic and paying communicable disease investigators. It warned that without the money, it would have to close the STD clinic and cut its own health services for undocumented immigrants of all ages.
Sunday, May 12, 2019
MMT meets resource constraints
Here we have a case of Gavin expanding state health services, but he has run our of nurses and doctors and buildings at the moment. Gavin needs new tax sources to sustain further expansion of health services, a reliable source that pays more than other locations and expands our medical facilities. Now Gavin's real problem. Even the medical services are getting clues about resource constraints.
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