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Salesforce, Google, Facebook. How Big Tech Undermines California’s Public Health System
California has also undercut its already struggling public health system and missed an opportunity to invest in it.
By Angela Hart
SACRAMENTO, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has embraced Silicon Valley tech companies and health care industry titans in response to the covid-19 pandemic like no other governor in America routinely outsourcing life-or-death public health duties to his allies in the private sector.
SACRAMENTO
Healthcare advocates in California are pushing back against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget plan released last week, saying it follows a dangerous pattern of underfunding local public health agencies despite glaring funding inadequacies exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health leaders asked that $200 million in ongoing funding be included in the state budget being negotiated for the fiscal year beginning July 1, but Newsom’s spending plan calls instead for a $3-million study to determine how much public health programs need so that the money can be included next year.
Health advocates and some lawmakers say the plan leaves a gap in funding that jeopardizes the work of public health agencies in communities across the state.
Health advocates and some lawmakers say the plan leaves a gap in funding that jeopardizes the work of public health agencies in communities across the state.
Salesforce, Google, Facebook. How big tech undermines California’s public health system.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has embraced Silicon Valley tech companies and health care industry titans in response to the covid-19 pandemic like no other governor in America routinely outsourcing life-or-death public health duties to his allies in the private sector.
At least 30 tech and health care companies have received lucrative, no-bid government contracts, or helped fund and carry out critical public health activities during the state s battle against the coronavirus, a KHN analysis has found. The vast majority are Newsom supporters and donors who have contributed more than $113 million to his political campaigns and charitable causes, or to fund his policy initiatives, since his first run for statewide office in 2010.
With Barrett On Supreme Court, California’s Church COVID Limits Are Being Overturned Sunday, April 18, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
The Supreme Court said California can no longer continue with a ban on indoor church services put in place amid the pandemic.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo
California’s churches are on a roll.
After more than a year of legal tussling with state public health officials over restrictions on indoor gatherings, houses of worship mostly evangelical or Catholic and politically conservative have been on a winning streak at the nation’s highest court.
Their latest victory came late last week when the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority put a hold on the state’s limits on indoor Bible study and other forms of worship. Most legal battles play out over years, and this was a preliminary decision; the ju