Healthcare Funding
When was HR. 1 signed into law?
What is July 4th 2025
Measure ER proposed this tape of tax?
What is a .5% countywide general sales tax?
Measure ER lasts this many years.
What is 5 years?
Myth or Fact: Roughly 400,000 LA County residents have already lost full-scope Medi-Cal since HR 1 was signed.
What is fact?
Measure ER was on this election.
What is June 2, Los Angeles County Primary?
This was the primary reason supporters said Measure ER was needed.
What is healthcare funding shortfalls due to HR.1 and to reduce cuts to county clinics and hospitals?
This County department helps write ordinances and ballot language.
What is County Counsel?
This County department is responsible for annually issuing a report on the amount of tax proceeds collected and spent each year.
What is the County Auditor Controller?
Myth or Fact: The Board's approved Measure ER Allocation Plan prevents the Board from ever spending Measure ER funds for other purposes, including settling sexual abuse litigation claims.
What is Myth?
This nine-member citizens committee will ensure fiscal accountability as to any revenues raised by Measure ER.
What is a citizen's oversight committee?
Which is accurate? Before HR 1, how many County residents rely on Medi-Cal. Is it a) one in two? b) One and three? Or c) One in four?
What is b) one and three?
This is something citizen organizers need to gather to qualify an initiative for a ballot.
What is a petition signature?
This is when the new Measure ER sales tax will begin.
What is October 2026?
County residents never need the Governor's permission to tax themselves.
What is a myth?
Measure ER got the majority vote in these two Supervisorial districts.
What is the 1st and 2nd Districts?
These are the two Cities that have their own public health departments and get Measure ER funding.
What is Long Beach and Pasadena?
This is the percent of funding that will go to the LA County Department of Health Services to fund a new program to provide health care to uninsured persons.
What is 45%
Prescription medicines, certain medical devices and all items purchased with EBT, SNAP or WIC.
What are items exempted from a sales tax?
Myth or Fact: Planned Parenthood gave zero dollars to help the Measure ER campaign.
What is fact?
This is how much Measure ER is projected to annually generate.
What is $1 Billion?
This is how much the impacted departments projected to lose over three years because of HR 1. Is it a) $1.7B? b) $5.8B or c) $2.4B?
What is c -- $2.4B?
This is how much annual Measure ER money shifted to Planned Parenthood through a last-minute Horvath read-in amendment.
What is $50M a year?
This type tax needs a 2/3 vote by the Board of Supervisors and a 2/3 vote by the electorate to pass.
What is a Special Sales Tax?
Myth or Fact: As a result of Horvath’s last-minute amendment to give Planned Parenthood $50M, school-based health centers and DPSS received less Measure ER funding.
What is fact?
This is the percentage of the vote Measure ER Measure ER received.
What is 50.64%?