July 26, 2002

Killing of Proposition 187
Will Kill Californians

Flood of Poor Mexicans Overwhelming Emergency Rooms


"Calif. Connection" Chart
"Currently, two thirds of California hospitals are operating in the red."

"California Connection - Unhealthy Cuts" - KCET TV -July 25, 2002
(Consequences of Davis' killing of Prop. 187 - but Simon is silent)

"The emergency room will be the new access point for medical care and that is a disaster waiting to happen."
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"It is a disaster for every Californian, not just for the indigent and Medical patients because everyone needs emergency care sometime in their life and if the emergency rooms are not there, everyone is going to suffer.... There can be potential death."
- Medical Director, Arrowhead Regional Hospital
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WE TOLD YOU SO
   We predicted the fiscal meltdown of California and we predicted the destruction of our health care system.
   Bill Simon has the ammunition to bury Gray Davis, but he hasn't used it. Why?
   (I recently had a medical emergency. I checked into the emergency room at my private hospital but could not be given a bed. The nurse told me they were filled by the indigent (read Mexicans).
-- Glenn Spencer

Los Angeles Daily News - July 26
See: Trauma-care tax vote backed
..."If the system is allowed to collapse, it will affect every man, woman and child in the county adversely. If the county lets this system collapse, it will have a ripple effect on every hospital in the county, and they will all be faced with being shut down."

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