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With The Recent "Reform" Of The County's Health System, The Cure Seems Far Worse Than The Disease. By Emil Franzi THE PIMA COUNTY Board of Supervisors recently voted 3-2 to surrender direct control of nearly one-third of the county's $700 million budget. These health-related responsibilities--from Kino Hospital to Long-Term Care, from Home Health to Animal Control--will be placed in the hands of a self-selected and self-perpetuating entity called The Pima Health Care System Commission. This new system is defined in the resolution, which set it up as "quasi-governance." There was no public d...

The Doctor Is In-For Now. By Chris Limberis IT WAS IN the depths of Pima County that Dr. Richard Carmona, the czar of the county's health system who has presided over a $14 million loss in the last year, made a surprising offer to his chief political benefactor, Democratic Supervisor Raul Grijalva. In the county's subterranean garage, Carmona told Grijalva--the conduit in the increasingly volatile relationship Carmona has with Sylvia Campoy, who heads the county's health care commission--that he would step down from his $190,500-a-year job. There, near the county's bottom, 12 floors beneath...