Tag: Medi-Cal
Legislative Analyst and Gov. Newsom Still Disagree on Budget Deficit and Solutions
The Legislative Analyst’s Office updated spending plan in Gov. Newsom’s revised budget shows a $55 billion budget deficit as opposed to the $27.6 billion figure Newsom presented last week, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The LAO released its latest...
Medi-Cal and its Deleterious Impact in California Medical Care: The Challenge
In the years following my demise as a private practice surgeon in Sacramento because of Gavin Newsom and his government run healthcare catastrophe, I moved to Nevada City, California, while still doing business in Sacramento. I did so to get...
Medi-Cal and Its Deleterious Impact in California Medical Care: The Effect
The effect of Newsom’s harsh Medi-Cal government run healthcare throughout California and beyond has been to herd both doctors and patients into a trancelike and untrusting state of mind. The affection between the two has turned into dislike. Call it...
Medi-Cal and Its Deleterious Impact in California Medical Care: The Cause
Medi-Cal is California style government run healthcare and as such is the poster child of our national and even our global government healthcare systems. The concept of the government running anything, let alone medical care, is a mistake, a misunderstanding...
Support for Bill to Save Dozens Of Rural Hospitals
A bill that would would require Medi-Cal to pay the actual costs of providing outpatient services in designated critical access hospitals, saw increased support this week. The result would be a boost for rural hospitals which would no longer lose...
On Neutering Lobbyists
“It takes two to lie – one to lie and one to listen.” There is more truth in this Homer Simpson quote than most of us would like to admit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qoqmmIY1dQ There is also a kernel of an idea as...