I m Dr. Brennan Cassidy President of the Orange County Medical Association and a family physician.
Today is a historic day for health care in Orange County.
We believe the public is strongly supportive of the basic concept that monies received by the county from the national tobacco settlement not tax dollars but monies from a lawsuit against the tobacco industry should be reinvested into health care. Unfortunately, the county strategic plan would still commit the bulk of these funds for debt retirement and jails. Orange County physicians do not believe that that is the right prescription for Orange County s health. Instead, we have drafted and will file this initiative. Continue Copyright 1999 by the Orange County Medical Association.