The Health Care Coverage Initiative shall be designed and implemented to achieve all of the following outcomes:
- (a) Expand the number of Californians who have health care coverage.
- (b) Strengthen and build upon the local health care safety net system, including disproportionate share hospitals, county clinics, and community clinics.
- (c) Improve access to high quality health care and health outcomes for individuals.
- (d) Create efficiencies in the delivery of health services that could lead to savings in health care costs.
- (e) Provide grounds for long-term sustainability of the programs funded under the initiative.
- (f) Implement programs in an expeditious manner in order to meet federal requirements regarding the timing of expenditures.