""Millions of people look to us to step up even when the federal government has walked away," said Supervisor Holly Mitchell, who introduced the ballot proposal along with Supervisor Hilda Solis."
""People died as a result of that," she said. "I don't want to go back there.""
The county Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 to place a half-cent sales tax increase on the June ballot to generate an estimated $1 billion per year for local hospitals and clinics. The five-year tax aims to offset more than $2 billion in expected cuts to county health services from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act over three years. A coalition called Restore Healthcare for Angelenos pushed the proposal to prevent mass layoffs and emergency room closures. One supervisor opposed the measure, arguing taxpayers should not be asked to backfill federal funding.
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