The League of Women Voters of Los Alamos supports the County ordinance establishing the Indigent Health Care Fund.
Position History:
(Adopted 1988; Revised 2004; 2008, 2017)
The League of Women Voters of Los Alamos supports the County ordinance establishing the Indigent Health Care Fund, which funds the county's Health Care Assistance Program through designated GRT monies. Desirable features of such an ordinance include:
- A limit for the amount of reimbursement.
- Provisions for changes in this limit because of changing medical costs or demands on the fund.
- Possible reimbursement of costs beyond hospital and ambulance services.
- Consideration of for-profit health care providers, but with non-profit facilities given first consideration.
League to which this content belongs:
Los Alamos