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Perspective

May 19, 2017

Signed into law in 1975, MICRA reform is long overdue

Clearly, the law has not kept pace with inflation. Indeed, in 1975, the median price home in California cost $41,600. Today, the median price home costs $516,000 — a 1,140 percent increase.

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By Mark Simowitz

In a California hospital, a 2-year-old boy is found not breathing and his fingernail beds are turning blue. His mother can hear the code blue being called from the adjacent room where her son was to have an MRI of his left wrist. She runs into the room and sees the frantic staff vigorously performing CPR on his tiny body. They finally get a pulse but not until after severe permanent brain damage is done.

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