{"id":158734,"date":"2025-09-15T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/158734\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:42:09","slug":"how-federal-funding-cuts-threaten-the-health-of-californians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/158734\/","title":{"rendered":"How Federal Funding Cuts Threaten the Health of Californians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medi-Cal, California\u2019s Medicaid program, is a lifeline for more than one-third of Californians, providing essential health care coverage to children, pregnant individuals, seniors, and people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/calbudgetcenter.org\/resources\/h-r-1-and-the-federal-budget-how-california-leaders-can-respond-to-trumps-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">recently enacted harmful Republican mega bill, H.R. 1<\/a>, enacts the largest health care cuts in US history, with about $1 trillion cut from Medicaid. For California, the harm will be severe. Up to 3.4 million people could lose Medi-Cal coverage and the state could lose $30 billion in federal funding each year.<\/p>\n<p>The law undermines Medi-Cal in two main ways. It imposes financing restrictions that strip billions in federal support, and it creates eligibility and access barriers that make it harder for people to stay covered. The table below highlights the key provisions of H.R. 1 and how they could reshape coverage in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Website-Pop-Up-Cutout-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47388 size-full\"  \/><br \/>\nFederal Policy<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-gray-darkest-color has-text-color\">The federal government plays a major role in shaping California\u2019s budget, economy, and the well-being of its people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-from-print has-gray-darkest-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c7863aa8504cdeeaf026241802eff40b\">Learn how federal policies shape California\u2019s budget, economy, and vital programs \u2014 and how state leaders can respond to protect and support Californians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medi-Cal, California\u2019s Medicaid program, is a lifeline for more than one-third of Californians, providing essential health care coverage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-158734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}