Public Health Financing
There are various ways through which public health is financed in the State of California (my state). The sources of public health are patient and regulatory fees, federal, state and local governments, insurance payments, households and foundations. The insurance payments are got from health insurance benefits at a state-level as directed by California’s Health and Safety Code and/or Insurance Code. Also, the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) has programs and foundations whose objective is the provision of better health care and support ways that improve the quality, efficacy and lessen the costs of care (California Health Policy Forum, 2007). Also, the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFFA), assists in public health care funding through loans, grants and tax-exempt bonds. One CHCF program is Innovations for the Underserved which aims at increasing the access to efficient and affordable health care for the California’s under-served by promoting health care models that are of lower-cost.
An example of a recent cut in public public health care in California is the cut funding for the Children’s Healthy Insurance Program. Lately, the California budget has put cuts on the funding for the Medi-Cal and the Healthy Families Programs, also, came up with policies aimed at cutting both children and families from the Medicaid and CHIP programs simultaneously; thereby making the program depend on temporary funds from the federal government, health plans, First 5 California and hospitals with the role of funding shifting to them (Children Now, 2011). The impact that the cut has had on the Californian community is that the premiums required on the children that have been enlisted in the Healthy Families program has been frequently increased and in the process, making it more difficult for the families to maintain their children covered by the program.

References
California Health Policy Forum. (2007). “Understanding California’s Public Health System.” Retrieved on April 4, 2012 from www.cahpf.org/GoDocUserFiles/208.CHI%20Brief%20California.pdf
Children Now. (2011). “Health Care for All Children Makes Sense.” Retrieved on April 4, 2012 from http://www.childrennow.org/index.php/learn/health_coverage/