Posted on 07/02/2010 1:05:27 PM PDT by SmithL
A balanced budget for Sacramento County? Not so fast.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge on Thursday blocked the county's scheduled cuts to medical programs for the poor, ordering that clinics slated for closure remain open.
The cuts were set to take effect this weekend – the start of the new fiscal year. Cuts to primary care, including the clinics, were projected to save $7.8 million.
It was part of a spending plan the Board of Supervisors approved last month that included layoffs for nearly 700 workers. The board had to balance a $1.9 billion general fund budget.
Included in the cuts were the closure of two medical clinics and the halving of services at the one remaining clinic, which treated indigent residents who didn't qualify for other medical coverage.
Two indigent residents and Sacramento's Loaves & Fishes sued the county over the cuts, which they claimed would put poor residents in danger and lead to inadequate medical care.
On Thursday, Judge Allen Sumner granted the plaintiffs a temporary restraining order in their lawsuit and ordered the county to keep the clinics open for now.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
This is what happens when you define sucking on the government teet as a right
Keep that free stuff coming!
Keep that free stuff coming!
Tax the rich!
So???
Whatever happened to representative government? I'm going to sue because a LACK of cuts will threaten the economic stability of the county thereby threatening the health and welfare of far more people.
The state made it mandatory by law with no exception then whines because the courts enforce the law. The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
The legislature needs to take the clinic funds out of the court budget.
Interesting how the courts have wrested control of the state’s finances away from the legislature. Is there anything they can’t do?
This is indicative of what transpires when the legislative abrogates their responsibilities to the judicial, be that at the local, state, or federal level.
If there simply isn’t money for the clinics to keep operating, how can any judge order them to remain open? Might as well rule that they stop observing the law of gravity...
How gave these silly bass turd “judges” the powah to do this? It’s not in the Constitution.
Keep them open with what, Judge Idiot?
Put it on the Judges Visa.
This is unpossible; Obamacare is the law of the land.
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