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All Over the Map

Newly updated to include breast cancer, prostate cancer, and spine procedures, this CHCF-sponsored research shows that practice patterns vary dramatically from place to place.

Medi-Cal Transforms

Medi-Cal is the main source of health insurance for one in five Californians. An updated report gives an overview of the program's key features, describes how the program is evolving, and examines the challenges ahead.

Obama Care in the Second Term

CHCF is a long-time sponsor of the UC Irvine Forecast Conference. A webcast of this year's conference on health policy in President Obama's second term is now available.

Friday, August 03, 2012

Advocates Criticize State Use of 'Special Fund' Accounts

Advocates for California's "special fund" accounts say the $4.3 billion that the state extracted from the accounts should have been used for the funds' intended purposes, like improved enforcement of health care professions and pollution reduction efforts. Instead, the state used those funds for schools, social services and prison programs that should be covered by general taxes.

Reader Comments:
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  • 08/03/2012
  • Hatti Hamlin

The behavior of the Legislature and Governor shows the contempt in which they hold voters, and reveals their own sense of immunity to the rules. It is the worst kind of cynicism to impose fees by promising benefits, knowing you intend to turn around and grab the money for other purposes! In any other context, that would be called a scam.

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  • 08/03/2012
  • Tim Colling

Saying that those funds were used for "... schools, social services and prison programs that should be covered by general taxes ..." is misleading. It would be just as accurate to say that they were used to pay for generous salaries, union dues and gold-plated retirement benefits for public employees.



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