Ms. SHERI SCOTT: It's a concern, because without Medi-Cal, I don't have health coverage at all.
Regular Medicare beneficiaries today have unlimited liability: Medi-care only covers a portion of certain procedures.
At the same time he was designing a medi-city to deliver such high-margin services as oncology and cardiac care.
He demanded that the doctor give Fortis a share in the medi-city, disengage with the venture or quit Fortis.
Both Glaxo and Merck will pay a royalty to MedImmune (nasdaq: MEDI - news - people ).
Today almost half of all Californian doctors refuse to treat Medi-Cal patients.
More than 1 in 5 participants in the Medi-Weightloss Clinics survey say business lunches are where they feel the most pressure to overeat.
Previously planned cuts to welfare and childcare are maintained in the new proposal as well as increased cuts to Medi-Cal, a government healthcare assistance programme.
Finances have also strengthened, even though most of those who check in to Citrus Valley are on Medicare or Medi-Cal (a version of Medicaid for low-income Californians).
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Goldstein is also waiting on the approval of FluMist, an inhalable flu vaccine the company is co-developing with MedImmune (nasdaq: MEDI - news - people ).
Recipients who work and receive minimal assistance will be allowed to opt out of the welfare program, yet still be eligible for medical care under Medi-Cal (the state's version of Medicaid) and child care.
MedImmune (nasdaq: MEDI - news - people ), a biotech that sells a flu vaccine called FluMist that is given as a nose spray, can probably provide less than 2 million doses.
To make the savings, Mr Davis proposes to reduce the number of people eligible for Medi-Cal, slim down the services it covers (eliminating, for example, dental care and physiotherapy) and cut by 15% the amount it reimburses doctors for them.
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