What health services does governor want to cut?
Published: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 4:03 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 4:03 a.m.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed health cuts:
$750 million from state Medi-Cal spending by giving the administration broad authority to limit services and benefits and to increase co-payments and premiums. The state has not yet developed details of the proposal.
$117.7 million from Medi-Cal by eliminating most services for recently arrived legal immigrants (5 years or less). Emergency services, prenatal care, state-only breast and cervical cancer treatment, long-term care and tuberculosis services are excluded from this proposal.
$134.7 million savings by elimination of adult day health care.
$15.4 million by rolling back eight family planning service rates. Because these services receive a 90 percent federal match, the state would lose $74.3 million in federal funds with this reduction.
$26.4 million in savings through Medi-Cal anti-fraud proposals.
$64 million from the Healthy Families insurance program by reducing ability to families who earn 200 percent of the federal poverty level, down from 250 percent. This would mean a corresponding loss of $164 million in federal funds.
$21.8 million by eliminating Healthy Families' vision benefit and an increasing family premiums.
$9.5 million by prohibiting use of AIDS drug assistance in county jails.
$904.6 million "savings" by diverting voter-approved Mental Health Services Act (Prop 63) funds to the state general fund.
A similar diversion $550 million to general expenditures, this one from California Children and Families Commission (Prop 10) funding intended for the Healthy Families insurance program.
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