Speaker 1: There are two health related ballot measures on California's state
Speaker 1: wide ballot in the twenty twenty six midterm election, Prop
Speaker 1: thirty eight and Prop forty four coming up. I'll give
Speaker 1: you a plain English, simple description of both these measures
Speaker 1: and why we're urging a yes vote on one of
Speaker 1: them and a no vote on the other. I'm Karl DeMaio,
Speaker 1: chairman of Reform California and a California state representative, and
Speaker 1: we're continuing our coverage of all of the fourteen statewide
Speaker 1: ballot measures on the California mid term twenty twenty six ballot.
Speaker 1: It's confusing, and remember the politicians are using falseness, leading titles,
Speaker 1: very deceptive descriptions of these ballot measures. They're hiding bad
Speaker 1: policies in some of these measures, and some of the
Speaker 1: measures are very good. But what what I want to
Speaker 1: do is focus on two of the ballots measures, two
Speaker 1: out of the fourteen that are on your ballot in
Speaker 1: this episode of Reform California with Carl Demo. Both these
Speaker 1: measures relate to healthcare. One is Prop thirty eight. Prop
Speaker 1: thirty eight is about healthcare research for cures, and Prop
Speaker 1: forty four is about regulating and increasing the cost and
Speaker 1: threatening the care of community health clinics. Let me start
Speaker 1: out first with Proposition thirty eight. As you can imagine,
Speaker 1: I'm urging a yes vote on Proposition thirty eight. Proposition
Speaker 1: thirty eight is an immunology bond, but it's not a
Speaker 1: traditional bond where the taxpayer is on the hook for
Speaker 1: the payment of the debt service. It is a public
Speaker 1: private partnership bond where the bond proceeds. The proceeds of
Speaker 1: the bond will be used to fund innovative therapy research
Speaker 1: at California research institutions. The money can't go outside of California.
Speaker 1: It has to go to one of our college or
Speaker 1: university research labs to look into immunology related treatments. Now,
Speaker 1: what is immunology or immunotherapies. They're already saving lives. I've
Speaker 1: got a whole rundown of some of them, and they're
Speaker 1: quite exciting and amazing. They address diseases like cancer, HIV,
Speaker 1: They deal with issues like heart attacks, arthritis, Alzheimer's, all
Speaker 1: sorts of ailments, and it basically is taking a look
Speaker 1: at your immune system to see how various therapies can
Speaker 1: be applied to make you healthier. Pretty amazing stuff. But
Speaker 1: the problem is that there's not a whole lot of
Speaker 1: funding that's available for all of the research projects that
Speaker 1: are still pending. So Prop thirty eight would provide a
Speaker 1: state bond funding stream and the way the bond would
Speaker 1: be paid off. Are you ready for this. When these
Speaker 1: therapies are devised and sold in the private sector to
Speaker 1: the private sector, a percentage of the proceeds the profits
Speaker 1: have to go to pay back the bond. This is
Speaker 1: so simple. Remember when we have these immunotherapies. It will
Speaker 1: also reduce government healthcare costs. For all of the government
Speaker 1: welfare healthcare programs, the cost of providing healthcare will be reduced.
Speaker 1: So this is a good one and we are urging
Speaker 1: a yes vote on Prop thirty eight. We don't usually
Speaker 1: at Reform California support bonds, but this one is not
Speaker 1: a taxpayer backed bond. It is a public private partnership.
Speaker 1: Let's go on to our next proposition. This is the
Speaker 1: one where we are urging a no vote. No on
Speaker 1: Prop forty four. In the United States, there's something called
Speaker 1: a federal community health clinic. The federal community health clinics
Speaker 1: serve underserved communities, low income communities rural communities, and they
Speaker 1: get federal funds in most cases. Well, the unions in
Speaker 1: the state of California have targeted these clinics to shake
Speaker 1: them down for more money for their union trusts, and
Speaker 1: so they bankrolled a very deceptive ballot measure that on
Speaker 1: paper looks good, but it is completely unworkable and I
Speaker 1: believe it will bankrupt and lead to the closure of
Speaker 1: these important community health clinics. First and foremost, it describes
Speaker 1: itself as putting more money into patient care. They even
Speaker 1: say ninety percent should go to mission related care. Sounds
Speaker 1: good on paper, but when you actually look at the
Speaker 1: definition of mission related care, it excludes a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of important care related services that these clinics are providing
Speaker 1: their patients. Even transportation to and from doctor's appointments or
Speaker 1: procedures would be excluded from the ninety percent calculation. A
Speaker 1: whole range of services they provide to make people healthier
Speaker 1: would be excluded. It's completely unworkable. A second, it creates
Speaker 1: at tax a penalty program whereby these clinics would have
Speaker 1: to pay to the state of California a bunch of money,
Speaker 1: and then the politicians would get that money and give
Speaker 1: it out to who you guessed it. The backers are
Speaker 1: the initiative, the labor unions. This is absolutely insane. That's
Speaker 1: why all of the community health clinics are opposing it,
Speaker 1: the Hospital Association, other healthcare providers uniformly saying no on
Speaker 1: Prop forty four. It's hazardous to your health and we
Speaker 1: should not have an unworkable initiative implemented for these community
Speaker 1: health clinics. Those are those two initiatives. Remember Reform California
Speaker 1: has a plain English voter guide for all fourteen statewide initiatives,
Speaker 1: plus all of the local measures on your ballot. We
Speaker 1: cover all ballot measures state and on local, and we
Speaker 1: give it a plan English description. To read more about
Speaker 1: what's on your ballot with a recommendation not only for
Speaker 1: every ballot measure, but also every candidate race, go online
Speaker 1: to election Guide California dot org. Election Guide California dot org.
Speaker 1: Put in your county and the voter guide for your
Speaker 1: county and every race on your ballot will come right up.
Speaker 1: Please also share the voter guide Election Guide California dot
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Speaker 1: voting easier, simpler, make sure they vote the right way.
Speaker 1: Give them that voter guide. They will thank you. Until
Speaker 1: next time, I'm Carl Tomio, Chairman to perform California and
Speaker 1: at California State Representative. Thanks for watching and I hope
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