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Judge slams San Diego medical service program for the poor

By Jason Siegel

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A San Diego Superior Court judge told the county to rewrite the its medical services program for the poor, saying it lacks legal justification, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Friday's ruling settles a three year dispute over the program between San Diego County supervisors and the L.A.-based Western Center on Law and Poverty.

Judge Ronald Styn ruled that the county's income limit of 135% lacked evidentiary basis and that the county's co-payment formula and hardship-waiver policy had no basis, the Union-Tribune reported. The hardship policy determined a patients ability to pay health care by estimated future earnings.

Styn's ruling makes people earning less than 165 percent of the poverty level eligible for the program until county regulations are rewritten, Western Center on Law and Poverty attorney Katie Murphy told the North County Times.

A June 6 hearing will review the county's amendments to the regulations.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).

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