Tucson Weekly: Bad Medicine (March 26 - April 1, 1998)
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...
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