Congress put your health care at risk...
Now it’s up to California lawmakers to prevent harmful health care cuts.
Health care is already too expensive. Federal cuts are pushing California families to the brink. Without urgent action from state leaders to fill the budget gap, millions of lives are at risk.
What's Happening
Millions of Californians are at risk of losing their health care, and here’s why: the Republican-led Congress and the Trump Administration made the deepest health care cuts in American history to fund massive tax breaks for extremely wealthy corporations.
This is not a fight we asked for, but it’s now up to the California legislature to set things right.
What Californians Need
Without a solution that raises needed revenue here at home, the state’s entire health care system will be at risk. Costs will continue to rise. Hospitals will close. Emergency room wait times will skyrocket. Californians will lose loved ones. People with chronic conditions will be forced to choose financial ruin to access life-saving care.
We need state leaders to do everything they can to reverse the damage caused by the Federal Administration’s harmful cuts and chart a different course for our state. That’s why the Fight for Our Health coalition is urging the California Legislature to take decisive action to protect Californians from harmful federal cuts by advancing policies that safeguard families’ health and economic security.
Why You Should Be Concerned
Health Care Cuts = Lives Lost
The true cost of the health care cuts legislated by Trump and Republican-controlled Congress: life itself.
Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is at risk of losing tens of billions of dollars in funding every year. As a result, up to 2 million Californians – seniors, children, pregnant individuals, people fighting cancer, LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities – could lose their health care.
When people who depend on Medi-Cal to be able to afford treatment lose their coverage, they lose access to life-saving medications, in-home care, the cost of living facilities, dependable emergency room care, and other vital services. Without an aggressive response to the Trump Administration’s deadly health care cuts – our loved ones will face escalating health crises, and lives will be lost as a result.
Powerful Corporations Profit, Californians Will Pay the Price
While corporate profits continue to surge, worker wages have remained stagnant. The biggest corporations – many of whose workers who pay their workers so little that many of them rely on state and federally-funded Medicaid programs – will get even wealthier. Individual working Californians will never see the benefits of these tax cuts handed out to corporations. The rich will get richer as Californians face profound gaps in care, and worse – preventable death.
Working Families will Feel the Greatest Pinch
Millions of Californians, including small business owners, veterans, and in-home caregivers, rely on Medi-Cal for life-saving care. While giant corporations use tax loopholes to avoid their responsibilities, there is no relief for working families facing higher health care costs. By ensuring these corporations finally pay their fair share, we protect access to Medi-Cal for millions of Californians. We cannot allow corporate tax dodgers to profit while our families are forced to choose between a doctor’s visit and their next meal.
Cuts Take Away Our Freedom to Choose a Healthy Life
When families lose access to preventative care like routine checkups, cancer screenings, blood tests, addiction treatment, and support for healthy eating habits – we lose our freedom to stay healthy, keep our jobs, and maintain our economic independence. Tax breaks for giant corporations won’t keep our economy healthy if workers and families are sick and can’t access care. Corporate responsibility is key to a strong revenue plan for California that will fill health care funding gaps to ensure a stable economy and protect our quality of life.