EDITORIAL TRAUMA CARE BAND-AID DAVIS DROPS PLANNED $25 MILLION CUTBACKS.NOT all political flip-flops flip-flops npl (esp Brit) → tongs fpl are bad. Back in November, Gov. Gray Davis proposed slashing slash·ing adj. 1. Bitingly critical or satiric: slashing wit. 2. Dashing; pelting: a slashing hailstorm. 3. $25 million in funding for the state's ailing trauma care clinics to help balance Sacramento's busted bust·ed adj. 1. Slang a. Smashed or broken: busted glass; a busted rib. b. Out of order; inoperable: a busted vending machine. 2. budget. It was an easy target, as gunshot victims and survivors of auto crashes don't have lobbyists and special-interest groups to speak up for them in back rooms. But enough ordinary Californians and a bipartisan group of state legislators registered their complaints, and now Davis is backing down from his plan to cut the funds. We can be thankful thank·ful adj. 1. Aware and appreciative of a benefit; grateful. 2. Expressive of gratitude: a thankful smile. that this is an election year for the good news. But elections come only every four years, so the bad news is that trauma care likely will remain in dire trouble. That's largely due to the fact that the health care system is so badly broken and so many Californians aren't insured. Thanks to Davis' reversal, state trauma care facilities won't go under this year. But without comprehensive reform, their long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. condition remains critical. |
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