CHCF February 28, 2025
Seniors, kids, and more could face service roll-backs and coverage cuts
Perhaps no state has more to lose than California in the federal budget proposal House Republicans passed this week. That spending plan sets up significant cuts to Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people. California has taken just about every route and opportunity to expand the Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. Today, 14.9 million Californians are enrolled in it, and federal funding cuts would almost certainly roll back services and coverage for some of them.
Looking for a way to offset the cost of extending President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, the House advanced a bill on February 25 that directs the Energy and Commerce Committee to find...
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