{"id":16243,"date":"2020-06-15T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16243"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:30:29","slug":"at-a-time-of-great-need-public-health-lacks-lobbying-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16243","title":{"rendered":"At A Time Of Great Need, Public Health Lacks \u2018Lobbying Muscle\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Angela Hart for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>SACRAMENTO \u2014 If there were ever a time for more public health funding, health experts say, it\u2019s now.<\/p>\n<p>Yet California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state\u2019s Democratic-controlled legislature are expected to reject a plea from local public health officials for an additional $150 million a year to battle the COVID-19 pandemic and protect against future public health threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not holding my breath,\u201d said Riverside County Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari. \u201cRight now, more than ever, the gaps that we have in our public health infrastructure have been exposed.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/at-a-time-of-great-need-public-health-lacks-lobbying-muscle\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Angela Hart for Kaiser Health News) SACRAMENTO \u2014 If there were ever a time for more public health funding,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16244,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions\/16244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}