California would scale back state Medicaid coverage for immigrants without legal status, eliminate coverage for certain weight loss drugs and use money from a key climate program to help fund state fire response under a $322-billion budget proposal announced Wednesday by Gov.

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.

As the largest economy in the nation, California has the most to lose from President Trump’s weak and reckless policies,' Governor Gavin Newsom said.

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.

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.

Ozempic and Wegovy would no longer be covered by the state’s health insurance for low-income people under the governor’s proposal.

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

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.