Medicaid

Medi-Cal cuts will strain hospitals already operating at a loss. The fallout: fewer services and higher costs for the privately insured too.

California’s uninsured rate could nearly double by 2030, with the sharpest losses hitting Black, Asian, and Latino residents in Southern California. A new documentary reveals the human toll behind the numbers, including families navigating Medi-Cal amid immigration raids and looming benefit cuts.

The Trump administration on Tuesday said it was deferring more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota because of “suspected fraud and noncompliance,”

Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana is taking aim at California’s Medicaid program for providing housing assistance, food, and other social services to high-need, low-income patients who tend to rack up big healthcare costs and, he argued, strain taxpayer funds.

Programs like SNAP and Medicaid are facing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts. It’s unclear how state leaders will fill the gap.

The cuts are just the beginning. The hole in the state’s budget will double as federal funding phases out over time.

Twenty-five Democratic-led states plus the District of Columbia have sued the Trump administration over its new work requirements for people who get their health insurance through Medicaid.

An analysis by KFF Health News found the health care program for low-income Californians lost almost 100,000 immigrants without legal status in the second half of 2025.

Congress restores critical access status for Glenn Medical Center, but the shuttered California hospital still needs $40-50 million to reopen.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Wednesday approving emergency funding for reproductive clinics following the loss of federal funds.

Data privacy concerns, increasing immigration enforcement impacting enrollment in Healthier Oregon

President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress have cut funding to Medicaid, which pays for many services for students with disabilities. Trump also gutted the Office of Civil Rights, which helps enforce disability law.