Doctor Discovers Illegal Spending — Then Gets Fired
Jason Kobely


Dr. Gene Rogers said he never wanted to be a political man.

For the last 40 years, Rogers has been a man of medicine. One of his first assignments was caring for soldiers during the Vietnam War. His last assignment was for the County of Sacramento in the Indigent Care Program. It is a job Rogers says he lost because of his attention on the county’s spending for illegal immigrants.

The program Rogers administered was for non-emergency specialist care for indigent citizens. When county budget cuts threatened to cut his staff, Rogers ordered a top to bottom review of patient files to make sure everyone getting care was eligible.

“I had asked one of the IT guys to run a program to see how much we were spending on undocumented aliens,â€