UCLA Policy on Medi-Cal Patients
The UCLA Medical Center, its new facilities not yet paid for, has decided to begin rejecting Medi-Cal patients (front page, Sept. 13). So, the Reaganization of the nation continues. These glitzy, over-luxurious towers resemble a vast hotel that would make Donald Trump envious.
However, the care there is excellent and the equipment is state-of-the-art--for those with good jobs and nice insurance policies. Once again, the poor are going to come up short. So, indirectly, these fabulous new facilities are being paid for by the poor. You see, the poor don’t pay for the comfort of the privileged by shelling out money; they pay simply by not having.
KARL F. LISOVSKY
Venice
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