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The time has come for the changing of the old established guard. Twelve hour waits in Emergency Rooms and the fact that over 50% of our residents still have no access to healthcare is not acceptable!  We now have an opportunity to rescue our healthcare system from the career politicians, and businessmen.  Lets put healthcare back into the hands of the patients and responsible physicians! I am a candidate today because over the years you have spoken and I have listened. I agree that together it is possible for ordinary people to do extraordinary things!

None of the present County Supervisors has knowledge or training in the area of healthcare and healthcare delivery systems, which has gotten us into trouble.  I have a track record of designing cost efficient healthcare delivery systems, which many of our local elected officials have endorsed over the years. In 1980 I created the plans for an urgent care center, in Los Angeles County Jail. The plan which was implemented in 1984 after Kenneth Hahn and medical staff from USC LA County Medical Center, visited my office in 1983, shortly after I opened the first freestanding Urgent Care Center in the greater Los Angeles area. Baldwin Hills Medical Center]. Earlier while working with the ER Group at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, as a partner-staff physician in 1982 we opened the “West Oaks Urgent Care Center” in Thousand Oaks.

 In 1994, I created the “Community Healthcare Cooperative Pilot Project Program” also known as the Ten Dollar Health Plan, which was based upon a network of urgent care centers and easily affordable fees for the “uninsured”. . It was the first Healthcare Coop Plan ever approved by the California Department of Insurance. Initially the health plan was endorsed by the LA city council including then Councilman Mark Ridley Thomas, and County Board of Supervisors including Supervisor Yvonne Burke….but it was opposed by insurance company lobbyists.

 We should encourage hospitals to come into our cities and to increase provided services. Tax rebates would provide hospitals with the additional income needed to retain specialists on call for Emergency Services which is now a big problem. Primary care physicians should be adequately compensated by insurance companies, and the State of California Medi-Cal Program which now ranks as nearly the last in the country for physician reimbursement.

There Are Some Other Important Issues:

The Local Economy:  The Second County Supervisorial District is huge! The County of Los Angeles has a budget of over 22 Billion Dollars.  LA County is the largest employer in the State and one of the largest consumers of goods and services…and related business contracts and jobs  should stay in our cities when possible, and not be shipped off to Mexico and other distant places which do not benefit our local economy. Work programs for our youth will get them off of the streets, and diminish gang involvement if early in life they  can have the experience of receiving a paycheck in return for their time.

Housing values are dropping and your property taxes should also be decreasing. A one year extension should be granted to homeowners who are now losing their homes because they cannot afford the County property taxes!

Disproportionate Sentencing of Our Youth into the Penal System: Three Strikes Laws are being selectively applied to Blacks and Latinos and on such basis are therefore are unconstitutional. Any substantive change in the law will require supporting evidence…statistical evidence that I believe I can provide. What a waste of human life and your tax dollars…..together we will change that! There must be reform in sentencing guidelines which are fair,  and rehabilitation should replace jail time where possible. Rehabilitation is less Expensive than Jail!!!

LA County’s Foster Care System is Broken: 40% of all children in foster care in the United States are in California.  50% of the children in foster care should not have been taken from their families because they could have been placed with a reliable, willing adult family member. However there are federal money incentives for placement at a profit to Counties must be stopped. 

Police - Community Relations:  Local community residents must be given preferential police cadet placement points.  Just as is true nationally in  suburban communities, our cities should be policed by our friends and neighbors who live there, and police brutality and wrongful arrest related issues will sharply decline.

Our ethnic community relations with one another must be improved and strengthened….We Are All One United People…And United We Stand!!! 

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Campaign Contributions May Be Sent To:

Committee to Elect Dr. Delaney Smith
Los Angeles County
P.O. Box 78-159
Los Angeles, California  90016

Telephone: (323) 395-9911
E-mail: drdelaneysmith@gmail.com
Website:  www.delaneysmith.com