Los Angeles County Must Preserve Health Clinics
A proposal before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to turn health care clinic functions over to private not-for-profits could help reduce the Department of Health Service's $195 million deficit. However, "[r]eductions in the current level of clinic services would be self-defeating in that any initial cost savings would pale in comparison to the ER gridlock that would result," according to an editorial.
- "L.A. County Must Reduce Costs, Not Health Services" (Los Angeles Daily News, 2/20).