Medicaid

Community members gathered in Bakersfield to voice concerns about a proposed $880 billion in Medicaid cuts.

To fight California’s homelessness crisis, housing is not enough — unhoused residents also need long-term help, with federal funds now at risk.

As Congress prepares to resume budget negotiations in May, local communities and health advocates are speaking out against proposed cuts to Medicaid.

Dr. Avenel Joseph, vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, fears that massive layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services will result in increased barriers to accessing healthcare for the nation’s most vulnerable people and children.

With the House proposing the largest Medicaid cuts in the program’s history, the health care of 79.3 million enrollees is at stake.

Mar 21 | Speakers discuss the proposed $800 Billion cut to the Medicaid budget and its impact on low-income working families, children and the elderly.

"These are the worst cuts to Medicaid in the history of the program." - Stan Dorn, director of the Health Policy Project at UnidosUS.

“As California goes, so goes the nation,” said state Attorney General Rob Bonta — and in the face of federal funding cuts, that goes for health care too.

The incoming Trump administration may chop several federal health safety nets, or use impoundment to withhold funds for benefits programs.

Palav Babaria from DHCS discusses health disparities in California, and how successfully the ongoing transformation of Medi-Cal is bridging them.