| Earlier this year, David Valadao decisively cast his vote for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history – ripping away health care from about 1.6 million Californians across the state and more than 65,000 of his own constituents.
Coupled with Republicans’ decision to rip Affordable Care Act tax credits away from families, tens of thousands are left facing skyrocketing health insurance prices, and loss of care altogether – and the impacts will span decades.
During a roundtable discussion, local medical professionals sounded the alarm on the long-term impacts of Republicans’ Big, Ugly Law to the Central Valley, which “could strip as many as 400,000 San Joaquin Valley residents of medical coverage over the coming decade,” and slash “about $287 billion” from food assistance programs over the same 10-year period.
DCCC Spokesperson Anna Elsasser:
“With one vote, David Valadao decimated health care access for an entire region for decades to come. His cruelty knows no end.”
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The Merced Focus: “Big Beautiful Bill” fallout could be “devastating” to Valley health care, Assembly members say
- The chairwoman of the California State Assembly’s Health Committee said changes to the federal Medicaid health insurance program for low-income residents could strip as many as 400,000 San Joaquin Valley residents of medical coverage over the coming decade.
- Provisions of…the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” backed by President Donald Trump and passed by Congress in July, Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, said, will be “devastating” to California’s Central Valley region…
- “In the Central Valley … between 200,000 to 400,000 residents across the Central Valley will lose medical coverage by 2034.”
- “These impacts are going to be catastrophic to our region,” she added.
- The bill also slices about $287 billion from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the same 10-year period. The weight of those cuts is likely to be felt most deeply by households with the lowest incomes…
- About 482,000 households amounting to more than 950,000 people across Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare counties receive assistance through CalFresh.
- The combination of cuts to the federal Medicaid program, the state’s Medi-Cal efforts and worries over partial elimination of the ACA premium subsidies is creating fears over a surge in the number of people in the San Joaquin Valley and statewide who won’t have any form of health insurance.
- “I think our community is trying to prepare for the worst … and hope for the best, but I think we do need to just be ready,” [Assemblymember Esmeralda] Soria said.
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