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Part "D" Stands for "Deficit": How the Medicare Drug Benefit Affects Medi-Cal

March 15, 2005 - The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act, also referred to as the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) makes significant changes to the federal Medicare program. The implementation of the Medicare drug benefit component of MMA, known as Part D, is likely to cause significant net financial losses to the state for years and have other major programmatic impacts on Medi-Cal. We recommend some limited actions and strategies the Legislature can take to address these potential problems.


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2005-06 Budget Overview: Resources and Environmental Protection

March 14, 2005 - Presented to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 2 on March 14, 2005.


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Assessment of the 2005-06 Budget

March 10, 2005 - Presented to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 on March 7, 2005.


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Water Policy Issues: CALFED Bay-Delta Program and Flood Management

March 9, 2005 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Resources and Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee on March 9, 2005.


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CalWORKs Program Overview Hearing

March 9, 2005 - Presented to Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1


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What Happened to the Proposal to Redirect UC and CSU Applicants to Community Colleges?

March 4, 2005 - What Happened to the Proposal to Redirect UC and CSU Applicants to Community Colleges? This is one of a series of issue briefs examining important questions about higher education funding in California. For more information on this topic, or to request other briefs from this series, contact the Legislative Analyst’s Office Higher Education section at (916) 319-8339, or visit our website at www.lao.ca.gov.


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Governor’s Budget-Related Reforms

March 3, 2005 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Process Committee on March 2, 2005.


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Governor’s Budget-Related Reforms—Proposition 98

March 3, 2005 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Process Committee on March 2, 2005.


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Homeland Security

March 1, 2005 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on February 28, 2005.


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California's Tax Gap

March 1, 2005 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee.


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Index of Information Technology Issues in the Analysis of the 2005-06 Budget Bill

February 24, 2005 - Index of Information Technology Issues in the Analysis of the Budget Bill, 2005-06


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Handout: Presentation Accompanying the Analysis of the 2005-06 Budget Bill

February 24, 2005 - This handout consists of charts used at the press conference for the presentation of the 2005-06 Analysis.


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Proposition 99: Too Many Programs, Too Few Dollars

February 24, 2005 - We recommend the Legislature approve the Governor’s budget proposal for Proposition 99-funded programs, which shifts allocations of tobacco tax revenues to maximize resources for health programs and achieve General Fund savings. We further recommend that the Legislature begin this year to address the long-term issues posed by the present structure of Proposition 99.


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Towards a More Systematic Rate-Setting Model for Regional Centers

February 24, 2005 - Our analysis finds that the way the state sets rates for vendors who provide community services for the developmentally disabled on the whole lacks a rational and consistent approach. We review how rates are set for these services and offer an improved and systematic approach that could achieve significant state savings.


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Hospital Financing Plan Could Begin to Right Ailing System

February 24, 2005 - The state’s hospital system continues to face a variety of fiscal challenges that weigh particularly heavily on public hospitals. The administration is negotiating with the federal government for a comprehensive redesign of hospital financing as part of its Medi-Cal redesign package. Our review of the plan now under development suggests that it could help preserve the financial stability of public hospitals but also raises some significant fiscal and policy issues.