{"id":393546,"date":"2026-07-10T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393546\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:22:08","slug":"california-joins-push-to-charge-big-employers-for-workers-medicaid-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393546\/","title":{"rendered":"California joins push to charge big employers for workers&#8217; Medicaid use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">California added momentum this week to a progressive push to require employers with high numbers of low-wage workers to pay extra fees to account for their employees\u2019 reliance on the state Medicaid program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.stateaffairs.com\/bill\/8bf9e7cf-1eaf-4b88-ac60-a7775a3cc408?ref=AAAAAAAAZ9wAAE_0AQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Share from Big Corporations Act<\/a>, which Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Thursday, directs state officials to study a proposed premium payment for employers with at least 250 employees to offset the taxpayer costs of their employees enrolled in Medi-Cal who are not offered employer-sponsored health coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California added momentum this week to a progressive push to require employers with high numbers of low-wage workers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-393546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}