News Bulletin
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January 9, 2014
Statement
from Ellen Wu, Executive Director of CPEHN,
on the California Budget Proposal for 2014-15
Governor Brown’s proposal for the 2014-15
state budget, released yesterday, increases funding to health and human
services but misses an important opportunity to restore some of the
devastating cuts that have impacted the health of California’s communities
of color.
The budget proposal includes a $670 million increase to Medi-Cal, mostly
for already-enacted implementation of the Affordable Care Act. And while
the proposed budget “forgives” the past years of uncollected cuts to
Medi-Cal providers, it leaves in place a 10% reduction of Medi-Cal rates.
Additionally, the budget proposal does not restore any of the other
previous cuts to Medi-Cal benefits.
For more than a decade our communities have been asked to endure painful
cuts to services due to structural deficits in the state budget. The
passage of Proposition 30 in 2012 has been critical to providing much
needed revenue for the state. California must use this opportunity to
demonstrate a commitment to its most vulnerable communities by restoring previous
cuts to our health and human services programs as well as making sure
Californians who remain uninsured have access to affordable coverage.
Visit our Policy Center for a detailed summary of the budget
proposal.
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/ California Pan-Ethnic Health Network / info@cpehn.org
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