South LA community leaders and LA County health care workers gathered at Martin Luther King Multi Ambulatory Care Center to call on the Governor and Legislators to create a budget that preserves basic health care for children, seniors and people with disabilities. The rally drew over 60 people, including staff from Speaker Pro-tem, Isadore Hall.
Since MLK MACC’s reopening last year, community members and labor leaders have been rebuilding MLK to provide much needed health care services to South LA residents. Yet, the Governor’s budget proposal to eliminate the Healthy Families program and cut $72 million from mental health programs would deprive health care access to the county’s most vulnerable, including over 400,000 children in Los Angeles County.
During the event, we made calls to the Governor asking him to create common sense solutions that strike a fair balance between spending cuts and taxes, and not to eliminate vital health care programs.Photos: to view all photos, visit our Flickr page.
“These services are really needed,” says Annie Archie, a LVN at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. “If they cut health care, I don’t see how this hospital is going to re-open. Health care should not even be on the table and taxpayers, the people, shouldn’t be the ones to lose the jobs.”
