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Tucson Weekly: Bad Medicine (March 26 - April 1, 1998)


With The Recent Reform Of The County s Health System, The Cure Seems Far Worse Than The Disease.
By Emil Franzi
THE PIMA COUNTY Board of Supervisors recently voted 3-2
to surrender direct control of nearly one-third of the county s
$700 million budget.
These health-related responsibilities from Kino Hospital to
Long-Term Care, from Home Health to Animal Control will be placed
in the hands of a self-selected and self-perpetuating entity called
The Pima Health Care System Commission. This new system is defined
in the resolution, which set it up as quasi-governance.
There was no public debate over the move, even though it has
been coming for many months and supervisors Sharon Bronson and ....

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