San Mateo County Supervisor Jerry Hill is moving forward with plans to dissolve the two San Mateo County based health care districts, including the Sequoia Health Care District headquartered in Redwood City and the Peninsula Health Care District headquartered in Burlingame.

Both districts no longer operate their own facilities as they merged with private entities, Sutter in the north, and Catholic Healthcare West to the south. Despite the fact that neither special district actually operates healthcare facilities, they continue to collect property tax assessments from district residents which are, in part, doled out as grants to a variety of local charities and health care efforts. But if the districts are dissolved, the tax does not go with it. In fact, the tax revenue paid by property owners will still be collected but can be redistributed by the county to other agencies within the former districts boundaries, or to the county itself.

And it is this revenue that Supervisor Hill is seeking to help bail out the county's financially flagging county hospital and indigent health care system.

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– Written by politicalblunder