California Church IMPACT
empowering & mobilizing people of faith to be effective advocates in public policy
  • Home Page
  • IMPACT Blog
  • About & Contact
    • Contact Us
  • Key Issues
    • Human RIghts
    • LGBTQ Rights
    • Health Care
    • Economic Justice
  • Take Action
    • Resources
  • DONATE
  • CCC
  • Prop 64 Faith Livestream

Proposition 29: Requires On-Site Licensed Medical Professional at Kidney Dialysis Clinics and Establishes Other State Requirements

9/7/2022

0 Comments

 
Recommendation: Support
Picture
Proposition 29. 
Requires On-Site Licensed Medical Professional at Kidney Dialysis Clinics and Establishes Other State Requirements. Initiative Statute.

This is the third attempt at requiring at least one licensed medical practitioner (whether a doctor, nurse, LVN or Physicians Assistant with 6 months experience) to be present at clinics when dialysis is being given. Anecdotally, the experience of our Public Policy Analyst is a case in point. Her mother had no such personnel at her dialysis clinic and contracted a blood infection that went undetected and settled into her bones. It was dismissed by clinic workers as arthritis. It was so painful the mother could not make her dialysis appointments and, despite hospitalization, was too weakened and died. 

It seems imperative that medical personnel oversee routine blood screening and other medically necessary issues. There is a provision for exemption for the state’s staffing shortage due to COVID. However, it is a necessary precaution for patients that will not raise the price and push patients on even Medi-Cal from access to the services. 

The proposition also requires the private clinics to disclose ownership interests by participating physicians and others. Hence the opposition from those clinics.
​
Opponents further accuse SEIU-UHW West, the Proposition’s union backer, of using this requirement to force unionization. For the life of us, we cannot see a link between the union’s desire to organize and these requirements. Proposition 29 makes sound medical sense and puts patients first before private clinic profits. We urge a YES vote on this measure.


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    The Rev Dr Rick Schlosser

    Archives

    September 2022
    May 2022
    September 2021
    August 2021
    June 2021
    January 2021
    November 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    January 2020
    June 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    October 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    January 2014
    September 2013
    February 2013
    October 2012

    Categories

    All
    Civil Rights
    Economic Justice
    Elections
    Environmental Justice
    Faithful Fridays
    Health Care
    Racism
    Reproductive Rights
    Women's Rights

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
Photo used under Creative Commons from ProComKelly