Prop. 44 says it’s about putting patients first. But it could do the exact opposite.

Running a community health center takes more than what happens in the exam room. It takes staff, technology, equipment, buildings, billing, outreach and many other things—things that may not count under Prop. 44’s narrowly defined “program services.”

Prop. 44 puts a rigid 90% “program services” requirement on clinics, while leaving the state Attorney General to further define what actually counts toward that 90%.

And if a clinic doesn’t meet the 90% requirement, there are serious financial penalties.

For MCC, our current estimate is that those penalties could be $2.8 million—a cost that could put our clinic at risk of closing.

A measure that says it puts patients first could actually make it harder for patients to get care.

Vote NO on Prop. 44.