California voters overwhelmingly reject union-backed Prop. 44 crackdown on community health clinics

Source: New York Post

California voters delivered a crushing blow to a controversial ballot measure that would have forced community health clinics to spend at least 90% of their revenue on patient care, rejecting the proposal amid dire warnings it could shutter hundreds of facilities. Proposition 44 went down in flames Tuesday, with nearly 82% of voters opposing the measure as votes continued to be counted. The landslide defeat marks another election setback for SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, the powerful labor union behind the initiative, which argued that taxpayer-funded clinics were funneling too much money toward bloated executive salaries and other expenses instead of patients.