Carson needs more access to healthcare systems pg. 3 The long road to juicing pg. 12
Health Care Emergency:
Trump, GOP Threaten Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid
Story by Andrea Serna, page 9
By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
Molina Healthcare:
A Real Family Business By Antonio Ruiz, Publisher of PalacioMagazine.com
Editor’s Note:
[See Molina, p. 4]
January 5 - 18. 2017
Dr. C. David Molina (left) at the construction site of the first Molina Medical Clinic, circa 1980. Courtesy of the Molina family
Dr. C. David Molina died 20 years ago, but the full measure of his legacy has yet to be documented. Molina is the founder of one of Southern California’s premier managed care companies, Molina Healthcare. Business publications discuss his entrepreneurial spirit and Molina healthcare’s financial reports. That is not a bad thing. However, what has been neglected in that telling of his story is revealed in his career choices. Molina had an intense desire to be in a position to do the most good. After earning a degree from San Diego State College in 1952, he became a teacher at Yuma Indian School. He eventually moved to Long Beach and began teaching at Mark Twain Elementary school before attending medical school.
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Mary Milelzcik’s Uncertain Future is part of the Dear Mr. President exhibit at the Loft Gallery. The exhibition opens Jan. 14. Photo courtesy of The Loft Gallery
“I am going to take care of everybody,” [getting health care],” Donald Trump told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley in September, 2016. “Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an unRepublican thing for me to say!” Saying that—and other un-Republican things— is a very large part of why Trump was elected. But he lied. And Pelley, like so many others, let him lie. Trump’s actual health care plan, “Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again,” wouldn’t cover everybody. An analysis four months earlier by the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found that Trump’s plan “would cause almost 21 million people to lose their insurance coverage, as the replacement health care policies would only cover 5 percent of the 22 million individuals who would lose coverage upon the repeal of the Obamacare. This would almost double the number of Americans without health insurance.” Others pointed out that repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, would also eliminate recent improvements to Medicare and make its trust fund less solvent. Additionally, Trump’s proposal to grant states fixed block grants rather than federally funding each Medicare recipient would significantly weaken the program, paving the way for future cuts. This means Trump’s plan is a lie with regard to his repeated campaign promise to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Trump knew what he was doing, even if Pelley did not. As far back as 2013, Trump told a gathering of conservative activists, “As Republicans, if you think you are going to change very substantially for [See Health Care Crisis, p. 8]
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