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It’s the second time in five years that supervisors have remade board of directors of the $3.2 billion health plan for low-income, elderly and disabled residents, and solidified the medical industry’s control.
The bill, proposed by state Sen. John Moorlach, would make it clear that local police and hospitals could use money from state Proposition 63 for emergency treatment of adults who are in danger of seriously harming themselves or others.
Proposed changes include reducing the size of the board and allowing spending requests and other issues to be approved by less than a majority of the full board.
Whitney Secor Ayers, a new vice president of the Hospital Association of Southern California, has been warned twice this year about violating the county’s policy on lobbying by former employees.
The board has until the end of April to answer the grand jury’s accusations that Supervisor Janet Nguyen has damaged the health plan.
Two former CalOptima board members blast Supervisor Janet Nguyen about grand jury allegations of lobbyist ties to health care ordinance changes. Nguyen meets with reporters Wednesday at 10 a.m.
The Hospital Association of Southern California sees the controversial 3-2 vote earlier this year by county supervisors changing CalOptima’s governing ordinance as spot on.
The county supervisor asked CalOptima’s board to end its contract with Laer Pearce & Associates because of vague slander allegations.
Julie Puentes of the Hospital Association of Southern California writes that most believe CalOptima should continue its “vital mission.”
“Tribute to Supervisor Janet Nguyen” comes after her successful
drive to get the hospital industry a permanent seat on CalOptima
board.