Posted on 03/26/2005 9:53:20 AM PST by SmithL
San Francisco Health Department officials proposed Friday that the city cut as much as $25 million in services for substance abusers, the mentally ill, people with AIDS and shut-ins to help eliminate its budget deficit.
"This is very difficult for us,'' said Dr. Mitch Katz, San Francisco's public health chief. "We understand the fragile nature of our integrated service delivery system and fully appreciate how reductions in service in one setting will put pressure elsewhere in our system of care.''
His two-word assessment of the third straight year his department has taken a budget beating: "It's bad.''
This round of proposed health cuts for the fiscal year starting July 1 comes on top of the $25 million that was trimmed from the Health Department this year. Those reductions focused on administrative costs and, on the whole, preserved services for the uninsured, homeless and low-income residents who rely on San Francisco's public health system.
While the $1 billion public health budget is expected to grow by more than $33 million next year, the combination of new regulations, inflation and other fixed costs is expected to force officials to make cuts.
Katz is proposing two tiers of reductions for the 2005-06 fiscal year -- $14.7 million to start and another $10 million in contingencies ordered by Mayor Gavin Newsom in case he can't close the projected $102 million city deficit without them. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Impossible!
Children, women and minorities are always hardest hit!
Since starving people to death doesn't hurt them. San Francisco can do the Terri thing to the addicts, illegals and Aids patients. They will enjoy the warm feeling and closure as they starve to death.
With SF's violent anti Iraqi war demonicstrations, the gay marriages, their vile hatred of GW, and the ongoing hotel strike, a lot of businesses are not coming to SF for meetings.
I doubt if many conservatives go there.
We haven't go in for plays nor dining for about 10 years now.
People like my Marxist homo brother, who are well-to-do under the capitalist sytem they hate, have already sold their condos and fled San Franfreakshow.
I grew up in San Francisco, and know all its nooks and corners, and all my favorite restaurants of every category.
You have given me an idea, though. Similar restaurants exist everywhere in the bay area, From Sacramento to San Jose. We should start a "Anywhere but San Francisco" dining out group, identifying favorite restaurants.
I will start with Le Bistro, Benjamin Holt exit, Stockton, just west of I-5
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
People like my Marxist homo brother, who are well-to-do under the capitalist sytem they hate, have already sold their condos and fled San Franfreakshow.
Like a cell bloated with virii, bursting, and shedding them to other healthy cells...
(Sorry it's your brother dude, maybe he'll "get the picture" some day and come around.)
wonderful .... hard reality is crashing into the city government.
If they have AIDS, I believe they've already lost. And the drug abusers aren't too far behind.
People with AIDS and substance abusers largely do it to themselves. Not entirely, and both groups can certainly use help, but it's crazy that such a large percentage of medical research and care is going into AIDS, and no doubt SF has a huge substance abuse problem as well, yet other important areas are neglected.
did everybody miss this? they cut 25 mil a year, without cutting any services, to anybody?
get it?
We have recently learned (cf Terri Schiavo) that starving to death produces euphoria.
Substitute for H?
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