Health Care & Hospital Law
Jul. 14, 2009
Health-Care Program Cuts Will Lead to New Costs
A new Joint Budget Committee plan will greatly reduce proposed budget cutbacks, saving jobs and avoiding more shake-ups to our already unstable health care system, writes John Logan.
FORUM COLUMN
By John Logan If Gov. Schwarzenegger's budget cuts go through, an estimated 600,000 jobs will be lost in California, in both the public and private sectors. Nearly 2.3 million people will lose health care coverage as a result of the reductions and 90 percent of the nearly half a million seniors and disabled people who rely on In Home Supportive Services to get by will lose their care. Luckily, the Legislature's Joint Budget Committee ...
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