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Health Care. Consumer Protection. Taxes on
Corporate Restructuring. Initiative Statute.
Official Title and Summary prepared by the Attorney General
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Text of Proposition
HEALTH CARE. CONSUMER PROTECTION. TAXES ON
CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING. INITIATIVE STATUTE.
- Prohibits health care businesses from: discouraging health care professionals from informing
patients/advocating for treatment; offering incentives for withholding care; refusing services
recommended by licensed caregiver without examination by business's own professional;
increasing charges without filing required statement; conditioning coverage on arbitration
agreement.
- Requires health care businesses to: make tax returns public; establish criteria written by licensed
health professionals for denying payment for care; establish staffing standards for health care
facilities.
- Authorizes public/private enforcement actions.
- Establishes nonprofit public corporation for consumer advocacy.
- Assesses taxes for certain corporate structure changes.
Summary of Legislative Analyst's
Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:
- Increased revenues from new taxes on health care businesses--potentially in the hundreds of
millions of dollars annually--to fund a corresponding amount of expenditures for specified
health care services.
- Additional state and local costs for existing health care programs and benefits, probably in the
range of tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars annually, depending on several
factors.
- Reduced state General Fund revenue of up to tens of millions of dollars annually because the
new taxes would reduce businesses' taxable income.
Analysis by the Legislative Analyst
Argument in Favor of Proposition 216
Rebuttal to Argument in Favor of Proposition 216
Argument Against Proposition 216
Rebuttal to Argument Against Proposition 216
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