Recent federal proposals to cut Medicaid funding could reduce health care services and cause more than 242,000 Central Coast patients to lose their CenCal Health insurance.
The proposed Big Beautiful Bill Act could reduce Medicaid spending by $793 billion among other cuts toward financing $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, according to news reports.
Health care providers are warning that patients won’t be able to afford to get care, and rural hospitals serving low-income communities would be at risk of closing…