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Article: State cutbacks prove worrisome for health providers: canceling programs would save state $1.4 billion in next fiscal year.(HEALTH CARE)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 15, 2009
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As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger considers a plan to eliminate the state's health insurance program for children and cash assistance programs to low-income families in order to reduce the state's budget deficit, San Diego safety net providers are prepping for what they consider a bleak future.
The governor is mulling the end of the state's CalWorks program, which provides welfare assistance to 27,400 poor families in the county, as well as Healthy Families, California's version of the Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides medical coverage to 75,800 children and teens locally.
Officials said eliminating the two programs would save the state ...