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"War is bad for babies and other living things!"
(Headline, California Public Health Association Newsletter, 1968).

"Eliminate 33 locked psychiatric treatment beds increasing the number of severely mentally ill homeless adults"
(Orange County 2003 Strategic Financial Plan impacts of a "no-backfill" policy, Handout at January 29, 2003 hearing).

"Proposed Cuts May Leave Many Without Care"
(Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2003)

"Clinic Can't Get Treatment for Cuts
...The Laguna Beach Community Clinic, which treats thousands of poor and uninsured patients, may have to reduce services because of proposed local and state budget cuts."
(Los Angeles Times, February 2, 2003)

"Health insurance costs jumped 14 percent last year and are projected to rise 16 percent more in 2003"
(Towers Perrin, quoted in the Orange County Register 2/13/03)

"Health system labeled 'crisis'... The American health care system is confronting a crisis...The health care system is incapable of meeting the present, let alone the future, needs of the American public."
(The National Academy of Sciences November 2002 report, O.C. Register, ll/20/02)

"Health Safety Net Is Fraying...
As a start, the county must put more money into the MSI (Medical Services for Indigents) program. Supervisors must reorder priorities...Funds follow commitment even when things are tough."
(Senator Marian Bergeson, in the Los Angeles Times, 12/8/02)

"Study Says Calif. Hospital Costs Surging...
Now, costs are growing at rates that are among the highest or the highest in the nation"
(Maureen Sullivan, Senior V.P. for Strategic Services, Blue Cross-Blue Shield Association, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, 11/14/02)

"Blue Cross Leaving O. C.'s CalOptima...
Because of the huge budget deficit California is anticipating, CalOptima is worried it will be forced to cut back. CalOptima already will be using $11 million of its reserves to help cover an anticipated $20.8 million deficit."
Jeff Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times, 12/21/03.

The American people can demand a rational cost-effective system that provides equitable, necessary access to health care for all. Eliminating insurance industry profit and implementing a single payer system can be a central part of this solution."
(Joshua Freeman, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center.)

"Health Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to Swamp U.S....an approaching catastrophe in the health care system...From one side, the sagging economy and skyrocketing costs of insurance...From the other side, the cavernous deficits in state budgets are forcing state governors to slash Medicaid...for the poor... one in five Californians lacked health insurance in 2001, one of the highest figures in the country. All evidence suggests the problem got worse this year... Health care is returning to Washington's agenda...But if Washington stands aside while the Medicaid safety net unravels, nothing else...will overcome the damage."
(Ronald Brownstein, Washington Outlook, 12/30/02)

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