Clinics Should Be Off-Limits to Budget Cuts, Advocate Argues

California Primary Care Association President Carmela Castellano argues that community clinics and health centers in California "should be off-limits" to state lawmakers despite a $26 billion deficit. She asserts that many state residents "would have nowhere else to turn except costly, already overburdened hospital emergency rooms" if clinics are cut.

• "Sacramento: Hands Off Health Centers" (Castellano, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/19).