, was a response to the California Public Utilities Commission’s proposal to let California’s largest for-profit utility companies charge customers $24 per month — with fees as low as $6 for lower-income customers — as a kind of membership fee for the power grid.
What does that mean exactly? For hospitals, doctors and health insurers, they will need to cut costs to avoid exceeding the annual per capita spending target. How they do it is up to them; health plans can include reining in administrative inefficiencies or reducing redundant testing. To show that they are complying with the cap, health care organizations will have to submit spending data to the state.
Garvey said he would support charging protesters with terrorism if the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office decided to do so. When asked if the office plans to bring those charges, spokesperson Venusse Dunn said: “When law enforcement presents a case to our office, we apply the law to the facts of each case and determine what charges, if any, are appropriate.”