By: Suzanne Potter

Groups that fight for greater access to health care are criticizing the Republican budget blueprint currently before the U.S. House of Representatives, claiming it could lead to huge cuts to Medicaid — known as Medi-Cal in the Golden State. Republicans can only afford to lose a couple of votes in order to use reconciliation to pass the bill on a simple majority vote. 

Kiran Savage-Sangwan, executive director of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, is asking voters to get in touch with their local members of Congress.

“Devastating health-care cuts can still be stopped,” she said. “With the slimmest of a majority in the House of Representatives, it would take less than a handful of House Republicans to vote ‘no’ on this plan to save health care for 15 million Californians who count on Medi-Cal.” 

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