Proposition 35 is supported by the Alliance to Protect Access to Care, which includes a range of groups involved in health care. These include the California Hospital Association, California Medical Association, Planned Parenthood of California, labor unions, emergency personnel and community health centers. Both the California Democratic Party and the California Republican Party expressed support.
President Jodi Hicks said the ballot measure is an opportunity to “invest in providers in a way that allows people to expand the patient population they serve” and for providers who already help Medi-Cal patients In other words, they can “expand the services they provide.”
It’s important “the entire system is funded so patients can get the care they need,” Hicks said. For example, she said, if a Medi-Cal patient can get a mammogram in a clinic, specialized care will also need to be provided if the mammogram shows a problem.
California has made great strides in expanding access to Medi-Cal and the services it covers, “but we need to assure people that if they are enrolled in the program, they will have access to those services.”
