Opinion: California hospitals and transit systems seek aid from deficit-ridden budget
As Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators contend with a deficit-plagued state budget, they face increasingly strident demands from providers of two very important public services for billions of new dollars to prevent financial collapse.
Last week, the California Hospital Association released a study indicating that a fifth of California’s hospitals are in danger of closing, in part because reimbursements from Medicare, the federal medical care program for the elderly, and Medi-Cal, the federal-state system of care for the poor, fail to cover costs of services.
A hospital in Madera County closed after Attorney General Rob Bonta blocked its sale to a larger health care organization, and several other rural hospitals are reported to be on the brink of closure.
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