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Conversion to electrical
shall be too painful

For anybody who misplaced energy within the winter storms of 2023, it was a chilly week or two should you didn’t have a pure gasoline water heater, a gasoline range, and a gasoline hearth. A heat bathe, heat meal and a heat room made all of the distinction.

Between 2027 and 2030, until the legal guidelines are modified, pure gasoline home equipment will not be allowed in new development in California. Solely electrical water heaters shall be allowed as replacements when gasoline water heaters fail after 2026. In lots of houses, changing a gasoline water heater with an electrical one would require a brand new electrical panel, which shall be very costly and in some instances inconceivable.

The push to get rid of pure gasoline from residential development in such a brief time frame is a nasty concept and shall be a horrible burden, each comfort-wise and economically.

Barry Fernald
Saratoga

State management should
change to cease exodus

On daily basis we learn or hear tales about Californians (and companies) leaving the state. The principal causes are:

• Excessive value of housing

• Taxes

• Crime

• Homelessness

• Congestion

But our progressive state authorities (can I say uber liberal) continues to deal with reparations, new tax schemes, sanctuary cities, high-speed rail, income-based utility charges, bail reform and early inmate launch, abortion facilities for out-of-state individuals — the record goes on.

No surprise, we now have a left-leaning governor and Democrat supermajority within the Legislature. They’ll proceed to wreck the Golden State with out critical problem. Do you belief these representatives to unravel our state issues?

Time for moderates, independents and the dwindling Republican base to say, “Sufficient is sufficient.” We have to transform California’s management earlier than it’s too late. Bear in mind this if you go to the voting sales space.

Neil Bonke
Los Altos

Rein in pharmacy
profit managers

We’re writing to precise our robust help for AB 913, which might require the California State Board of Pharmacy to license and regulate pharmacy profit managers (PBMs).

Presently, beneath the Knox-Keene Well being Care Service Plan Act of 1975, PBMs are registered by the Division of Managed Well being Care and are usually not regulated, as they don’t seem to be insurance coverage corporations. The well-being of Californians comes second to earnings for PBMs. AB 913’s requirement for PBMs to report back to the state board would promote transparency and allow policymakers to raised perceive the diploma of affect PBMs have on drug costs and formularies. The present regulation is partially chargeable for unnecessarily excessive prescription treatment costs. Sufferers’ optimistic well being outcomes needs to be a excessive precedence.

With the extra regulation mandated by AB 913, it’s my and my colleagues — Justice Dodson, Jasmin Escobar, Ruth Ho, Sukhvinder Nijjar, Sahba Roshanaei and Soutsada Sikhounchanh, physician of pharmacy candidates — agency perception that PBMs could be compelled to function in a approach that sufferers’ well being is prioritized.

My Huynh
San Jose

Maintain staff in Mason
case accountable

Re: “Probe county’s failures in case of Sophia Mason” (Web page A12, April 30).

I concur that Alameda County bears accountability for Sophia Mason’s torture and dying. Nevertheless, notice the ethical hazard right here: Whether or not a supervisor or worker does an excellent job or unhealthy, is great or incompetent, there may be little probability of being fired.

In non-public companies, those that don’t fulfill their tasks are demoted, or dismissed to search out applicable employment in one other line of labor. In authorities, nonetheless, there appears to be no such accountability; jobs are for all times, protected in the end by the Board of Supervisors on this case.

Publicizing the firing of a few of the caseworkers and workers concerned would offer a robust lesson for remaining workers that their assigned duties are of a critical nature and are usually not taken calmly by the county or by residents.

Paul Wesling
Saratoga

Democrats’ moralist
posturing falls flat

The declare of ethical supremacy by a political occasion is step one towards fascism.