{"id":190478,"date":"2025-09-29T18:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190478\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:42:06","slug":"while-adam-gray-fights-to-protect-health-care-california-republicans-are-mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190478\/","title":{"rendered":"While Adam Gray Fights to Protect Health Care, California Republicans are MIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article312246119.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article312246119.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1759249328210000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1MG0Z2BIeaAE1KF1ksOoya\">Fresno Bee editorial<\/a>\u00a0is recognizing Congressman Adam Gray\u2019s work to protect health care access for families across the San Joaquin Valley \u2013 while scorching House Republicans like David Valadao for doing\u00a0\u201cnothing\u201d\u00a0to fix the health care crisis that they created by voting to pass the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/americansfortaxfairness.org\/house-gop-passes-largest-cuts-medicaid-snap-history-fund-billionaire-tax-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/americansfortaxfairness.org\/house-gop-passes-largest-cuts-medicaid-snap-history-fund-billionaire-tax-cuts\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1759249328210000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0179hJP2LB3tRlkCVQ8ozn\">largest<\/a>\u00a0cut to Medicaid in history.<\/p>\n<p>The Bee points out that\u00a04 million Californians\u00a0are about to lose their Medicaid coverage, another\u00a01.7 million\u00a0Covered California enrollees will see their premium costs spike by\u00a066%\u00a0because of expiring ACA tax credits, and\u00a070 hospitals\u00a0are on the verge of shuttering \u2013 all thanks to Republicans and their Big, Ugly Law.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Gray is fighting for a bill that would restore Medicaid funding to help those same\u00a04 million Californians\u00a0stay on their health care \u2013 but Valadao and his GOP colleagues are not supporting Gray\u2019s bill, despite the fact that the rural communities they represent will be among the hardest-hit. Instead, they skipped town without any plan to help the millions of Valley families they put in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe healthcare ecosystem is fragile, and Republicans don\u2019t care,\u201d\u00a0the Editorial Board concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of the editorial for yourself:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new\u00a0Fresno Bee editorial\u00a0is recognizing Congressman Adam Gray\u2019s work to protect health care access for families across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-190478","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\/190478","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=190478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}