#medicaid-cuts

#medicaid-cuts

Measure A on the Nov. 4 ballot in Santa Clara County would raise the sales tax by five-eighths of a cent. The measure would push the sales tax rate to at least 9.75% in the county, with higher rates in Los Gatos (9.875%), San Jose (10%), Milpitas (10%) and Campbell (10.5%). The increase would raise $330 million a year, according to county officials.

Through North Carolina's Medicaid program, Maklakoff qualifies for a large slate of medical care in the family's home in Chapel Hill. Fabrello said she works with staffing agencies to arrange services. She also learned to give the care ordinarily performed by a doctor, skilled nurse, or highly trained therapist because she often can't get help. Now, broad cuts to North Carolina Medicaid will make finding and paying for care even more difficult.

In 2018, Democrats took advantage of the years-long Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act that had given millions of Americans access to health insurance along with the first Trump administration's bureaucratic efforts to limit the Obamacare law. This time, they stand to benefit from GOP support for a series of unpopular health policies that will cost millions their health care coverage, increase the cost for others and, even worse, possibly trigger the kinds of childhood epidemics not seen in recent years.

As President Donald Trump openly contemplates sending military forces into more American cities, the leading congressional Democrats almost invariably describe his actions as an attempt to create a "distraction" from something else - whether that's the cost of living, the massive Medicaid cuts he signed into law, or the controversy around the Jeffrey Epstein files. That reflex captures the overwhelming preference of top DC Democrats to frame the 2026 election on familiar partisan grounds, particularly the charge that Trump has failed in his core 2024 promise to bring down the cost of living for average families.

Let me put it this way - everyone knows who the President of the United States is and who the president is who signed the law that has cut almost a trillion dollars from Medicaid,

And while the bill holds very limited benefits for tipped workers, it also lays out major cuts to both SNAP and Medicaid benefits, both social services that restaurant workers in particular must lean on, according to a recent report from One Fair Wage. SNAP faces $186 billion in funding cuts, while Medicaid will be cut by nearly $1 trillion.

The bill, which was signed into law on July 2, enacts the largest Medicaid funding cuts in U.S. history, slashing around $1 trillion from the program. Congressional budget estimates predict that over 10 million Americans will lose Medicaid coverage within the next 10 years.

Hochul warned that federal cuts to Medicaid would push New York's health system to the brink of collapse, especially if a MAGA Republican becomes governor.

The government's removal of Medicaid funding has led to five Planned Parenthood clinics in California closing due to unsustainable financial strains, impacting low-income women's healthcare access.

"Hospital closures over the past 20 years and physician shortages undermine assumptions about timely emergency care in the United States. Cuts to Medicaid put the entire emergency-medicine safety net at risk."

Governor Kathy Hochul stated that major federal funding cuts from President Trump's new bill are set to inflict severe harm on New Yorkers, especially the vulnerable. She emphasized that this bill aims to subsidize tax breaks for the wealthy at the expense of crucial aid programs.

Jeffries delivered an 8-hour and 44-minute speech opposing the GOP's reconciliation bill, aiming to delay the House vote on significant cuts to public spending.

Hakeem Jeffries's lengthy remarks aimed at highlighting the adverse effects of Donald Trump's bill delayed Republican celebrations and drew attention to the critical issue of Medicaid cuts.