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NEWSOM: “Let’s talk about that. This year we have proposed calling. It’s a once in a lifetime reform of our medical system based on the obvious long ignored principle that physical health and brain health are inextricably linked. After all, ten million Californians, one in four, suffer from some type of behavioural health condition. This is not a narrow issue. Nor a new one. The deeper truth is that our healthcare system though it’s been designed to treat some of our parts not the sum of our parts and that must change. This landmark proposal ... (Applause)
“This landmark proposal calls for leveraging medical as a tool to help California’s the most vulnerable residents, the homeless, our children and people cycling in and out of the criminal justice system. It’s about integrating care, targeting social determinants of health and expanding our whole person care pilots state-wide. (Applause)
“Healthcare ... Healthcare and housing can no longer be divorced. After all, what’s more fundamental to a person’s wellbeing then a roof over their head? Doctors, doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin and antibiotics. (Cheers and Applause) That’s the aim of Cali, transforming our medic system as we know it and we backed it up with this 695 million budget request to make it real this year.”