No on AB 3129
AB 3129 cuts off private funding for local hospitals, clinics and doctors, harming patients’ access to health care in communities throughout California.
We can’t afford to lose any more hospitals and doctors.
Reprinted with permission from CalMatters/ Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/ CatchLight
Californians to Protect Community Health Care is a coalition of hospitals, doctors, dentists, and employers opposed to AB 3129.
California’s health care system remains severely under-resourced, despite recent progress in some areas. Many communities are struggling to keep the hospitals, doctors and dental practices needed to meet their basic health care needs. AB 3129 gives one politician the power to reject private funding for hospitals and doctors, cutting off a critical funding lifeline needed to keep hospitals and medical and dental practices open.
AB 3129 will:
Cut off private funding for local hospitals, clinics and doctors.
Risk more closures of hospitals, ERs, clinics and medical practices.
Leave taxpayers on the hook to help struggling health care providers.
California can't afford more hospital closures like madera
Madera Community Hospital was struggling financially and was poised to close without new funding. A new investor agreed to take over the hospital, but the Attorney General used his power to reject the offer.
The consequences were disastrous: the hospital closed, forcing patients to travel miles to more-distant hospitals, which were in turn swamped by the influx of additional patients.
AB 3129 could create more horror stories like this by expanding the state’s power to block private investment in health care.
more than 2,200 healthcare facilities under threat
Privately funded health care at risk
Private funding has helped expand access to health care in communities throughout California, through funding for hospitals, doctors, clinics, urgent care, dentist practices. AB 3129 would cut off private funding, putting these success stories at risk.