Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget plan walks back his promise to provide free healthcare to undocumented immigrants, caps overtime for in-home support service workers and reduces Medi-Cal benefits for Californians.

For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare County,

There are still many unknowns about what cuts, if any, could happen to Medi-Cal, which covers roughly 15 million people in the state.

While healthcare workers would make up a majority of job losses, industries that rely on the healthcare industry, including restaurants and retail stores, would also face significant job losses.

Congressional Republicans’ proposed Medicaid work reporting requirements could strip coverage from hundreds of thousands of children, cost up to 449,000 jobs, and lead to more than 15,400 avoidable deaths each year.

As well as California, which would experience an estimated 18-percent drop in federal Medicaid assistance, other states would need to make up significant shortfalls in funding over the next ten years.

As Congress discusses possible cuts behind closed doors, the medical community strives to connect dollars to services

Proposed Medicaid cuts in the Republican budget proposal hold significant implications for health care access and coverage.

As Congress reconvenes this week, Republicans are proposing $880 billion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade. A new UC Berkeley Labor Center report warns the move would not only jeopardize healthcare for 15 million Californians, but could cost the state up to 217,000 jobs.

Imagine if you told your kid they could have dessert, but only if they ate all of their vegetables. Then, as you looked away, they quietly slipped their spinach to the dog before reaching out to receive dessert. Here you have what California is doing with Medicaid funding, and the whole country is paying for it.