#medi-cal-cuts

#medi-cal-cuts

"This argues for the need to sustain such policies and shows that it is possible to right the wrongs retroactively, which is a powerful idea," said Kenneth Michelson, MD, MPH, associate professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Emergency Medicine and a co-author of the study.

"There are people who have come here after escaping violence and persecution and torture. These are communities that we have historically said, 'You are welcome here. We have the support for you. We're going to help you get established in our country.' And now, the federal government is abandoning them."

"Many times I find myself having to set aside other basic needs my children have in order to prioritize buying food," Garcia said in Spanish.

Eight individuals were arrested and 15 charged in a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $50 million by running sham hospice facilities across Southern California. Federal officials described the actions as brazen efforts to commit fraud, with many billed patients not being terminally ill.

Because of budget cuts, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has ended clinical services at seven of its public health clinic sites. As of Feb. 27, the county is no longer providing services such as vaccinations, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, or tuberculosis diagnosis and specialty TB care at the affected locations, according to county officials and a department fact sheet.

Those extra subsidies were enacted in 2021 as part of temporary, pandemic-era relief, boosting financial help for people buying coverage on state-run insurance marketplaces such as Covered California. The law also expanded eligibility to people earning more than 400% of the federal poverty level, about $62,600 for a single person and $128,600 for a family of four. With the expiration of the enhanced subsidies, people above that income threshold no longer receive federal assistance,

"The federal Medicaid cuts are an absolute disaster for HCBS," said Sabrina Epstein, a policy analyst at Disability Rights California.

Not UCSF (potentially out $5.8 million). Definitely not Livable City (quite possibly dropped from the public health budget entirely). And definitely not the health commissioners. "There is really no joy in any of the decisions that we've been trying to make,"said Department of Public Health Director Daniel Tsai to the nearly 100 people who came to make a case for reinstating their funding. "And sometimes it's a question of what is the least difficult or least harmful decision to make."

Just over seven months after Planned Parenthood affiliates were defunded by the Trump administration, California injected another $90 million lifeline in reproductive health care grants to the state's seven affiliates, among the largest in the United States. The latest funding comes as a result of legislation, Senate Bill 106, passed by state lawmakers and signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Feb. 11. Since last fall, California has provided $235 million to the state's seven Planned Parenthood affiliates with Planned Parenthood of Orange County and San Bernardino counted as among one of the largest in the nation as measured in patient volume. The affiliate serves more than 130,000 patients annually across nine health centers in both counties.

The Trump administration's sweeping crackdown on immigrants has taken a particularly high toll on the child care industry - both for families and providers. In California, almost 40% of the workforce is foreign-born and more than a million parents - immigrant and otherwise - rely on child care providers so they can go to work.