Health care providers struggling to keep their doors open during California's record budget impasse accused state lawmakers Friday of "criminal negligence" for endangering their patients. Steven Carlos, 35, who lives in a Medi-Cal home in San Jose, joins Medi-Cal providers and patients in a Capitol rally Friday calling on lawmakers to pass a budget. Providers say the budget impasse has left them $4 billion short and that the Legislature's "criminal negligence" puts their patients in danger. Elaine Cooper of the California Association of Health Facilities unrolls a petition urging passage of a budget that protects people with developmental disabilities. ...
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Health care providers struggling to keep their doors open during California's record budget impasse accused state lawmakers Friday of "criminal negligence" for endangering their patients. Steven Carlos, 35, who lives in a Medi-Cal home in San Jose, joins Medi-Cal providers and patients in a Capitol rally Friday calling on lawmakers to pass a budget. Providers say the budget impasse has left them $4 billion short and that the Legislature's "criminal negligence" puts their patients in danger. Elaine Cooper of the California Association of Health Facilities unrolls a petition urging passage of a budget that protects people with developmental disabilities. ...