California Hospital Association President Warns Medi-Cal Budget Cuts Will Lead to ‘Health Care Dominoes’

California Hospital Association President and CEO Duane Dauner warned that the planned closing of Palomar Continuing Care Center in Escondido this autumn may be the first of many "health care dominoes" to fall unless lawmakers and Gov. Brown's administration reverse Medi-Cal budget cuts. Medi-Cal is California's Medicaid program. A Medi-Cal fee cut of up to 10% -- retroactive to 2011 -- is set to take effect by the end of the summer.

• "Hospital Group Warns of 'Health Care Dominoes' Falling With Medi-Cal Cuts" (Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 8/6).