Los Angeles Times Editorial Addresses Problems Facing Health Care
System
CAL/AAEM News Service
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Sun Sep 12 18:57:58 PDT 2004
Los Angeles Times Editorial Addresses Problems Facing Health Care System
August 27, 2004
The "crisis that dwarfs all others" with regard to the emergency care system
"is the huge number of people with no medical insurance," a Los Angeles Times
editorial states, adding that Los Angeles County is the "epicenter of the
uninsured crisis" in the United States. According to the Times, hospitals and
emergency departments in the county have continued to close even after voters
in 2002 approved a property tax increase that raises about $170 million a year
to fund ED care in the county. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) decision to
postpone a plan to restructure Medi-Cal is "good news" because it shows that
the governor "has not yet settled for an easy smoke-and-mirrors fix" to
problems facing the state health care system. "The test will be whether he's
willing to use his immense popularity to work with state legislators and the
federal government to forge a tough but true solution, one that would increase
the rolls of the insured and by doing so preserve the emergency system for
all," the Times concludes (Los Angeles Times, 8/27).
Source: California Healthline (www.californiahealthline.org)
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Cyrus Shahpar & Brian Potts
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service
UC-Irvine
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