← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · jeffersonian
Thread ID: 6516 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-05-06
2003-05-06 17:30 | User Profile
Funny how the numbers of uninsured are never correlated with the massive influx of illegal immigrants. I guess cheap gardening and pool cleaning is worth more than keeping public health facilities open in the Golden State. RECALL DAVIS
Original Article at: [url=http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/6572887p-7522998c.html]Sacramento Bee[/url]
**Public hospitals say they're facing $3 billion in red ink
The Associated Press Last Updated 5:47 a.m. PDT Tuesday, May 6, 2003
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Squeezed by growing numbers of uninsured patients and declining or stagnant government support, California's 26 public hospitals are facing a revenue shortfall of at least $3 billion over the next five years, officials said Monday.
"This drastic divergence between revenues and expenses cannot be sustained without extensive reductions in services and loss of access to care for millions of Californians," the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems in a report.
Public hospitals absorb more than half - 55 percent - of the cost of treating the more than six million Californians who lack health insurance, the report said. That came to $1.6 billion in 2001.**