Senate Health Plan May Cost California $115 Billion Through 2027
California would face the most considerable losses of any state. The article says, “Federal funding would drop by 26 percent over ten years, the report said. Many states, including Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and Florida, would face a drop of less than 10 percent.” Faced with such drastic funding cuts, Mari Cantwell told California Healthline; “Nothing is safe—no population, no services. It is really disheartening and honestly horrifying to think about the world under this Senate bill and what it would mean.”
Jennifer Kent, the director of California’s Medi-Cal program, speaks critically of the proposed legislation:
The Senate bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, “takes a sledgehammer to the improvements we have made in our state’s healthcare delivery system…. The long-term impact of this bill cannot be understated: It is simply devastating.”
