{"id":618993,"date":"2026-05-02T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618993\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:42:27","slug":"l-a-countys-proposed-healthcare-sales-tax-election-voter-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618993\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. County’s proposed healthcare sales tax election voter guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Supervisor Kathryn Barger was the only supervisor against it. She pointed to the fact that the tax was a \u201cgeneral\u201d tax, meaning the money won\u2019t be earmarked for healthcare costs. That means politicians have final say over how the money gets spent rather than voters, she said.<\/p>\n

Some cities within L.A. County<\/a> say they\u2019re also rattled over the tax, unleashing a stream of opposition letters<\/a> against the tax. The California Contract Cities Assn. argues a sales tax hike would \u201cdisproportionately burden the very residents the County seeks to protect.\u201d Shoppers near the county line, they warn, likely would start crossing it to shop.<\/p>\n

Some of these cities say they have the trust issues when it comes to county ballot measures. When voters approved Measure B in 2002 to fund the county\u2019s trauma center network, an audit<\/a> years later found the county couldn\u2019t account for whether the money actually had been spent on emergency medical services. And some cities feel they never got their fair share of funds from Measure H, the homelessness services tax measure passed in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Supervisor Kathryn Barger was the only supervisor against it. She pointed to the fact that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[7177,18053,11987,268408,203631,16602,97,252,253,12589,268406,43990,3590,10119,268407,268405,20736,268404],"class_list":["post-618993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-affordable-housing","tag-ballots","tag-candidates","tag-century-city-law-firm","tag-city-attorney","tag-district","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-homelessness","tag-kuehl","tag-officers","tag-people","tag-race","tag-use-attorney","tag-yaroslavsky","tag-years","tag-yebri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}