To the editor: I worked in the L.A. County Department of Public Health for many years. I am appalled and saddened by the ending of clinical services at seven public health clinic sites, the result of about $50 million in funding losses (“There were 13 full-service public health clinics in L.A. County. Now there are 6,” March 3). These clinics served low-income residents, the uninsured and those with limited access to care.
There is so much wealth in Los Angeles. Where is our humanity?
Ann C. Hayman, Westwood
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To the editor: Doesn’t the administration understand that public health programs and their inestimably valuable prevention services actually save many millions of dollars in acute healthcare? Shortsighted, I would say.
Toby Horn, Miracle Mile