Orange County Board of Supervisor Andrew Do announced his resignation last week from the board of CalOptima, a public health insurance company for low-income residents in Orange County. He had been its chair since 2020.
His resignation, Feb. 2, comes as the organization is being investigated by the state at the request, last May, of California Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva 9 (D-Fullerton).
In her request, Quirk-Silva referenced how CalOptima claims to use 96 cents of every dollar they receive from the federal and state government for their patients’ medical care and that their administrative costs are amongst the lowest.
But as reported previously by The Epoch Times, CalOptima executives receive annual salaries ranging from $308,000 to $841,000….