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Opinion: Newsom shouldn’t balance the state budget on the backs of Medi-Cal patients
California budget hawks are suggesting an approach that disproportionately disadvantages patients with cancer and HIV/AIDS.
Can Gov. Gavin Newsom use Medi-Cal funding to balance California’s budget?
Proposition 35 was meant to attract doctors to care for low-income Californians. Instead, the state is looking to use that ...
Gov. Newsom proposes ‘asset test’ for low-income and disabled Medi-Cal applicants. What does that mean?
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing reinstating an 'asset test' that would narrow eligibility for low-income seniors and adults ...
Gavin Newsom proposes $2,000 asset eligibility test to control soaring state Medi-Cal costs
Gavin Newsom's budget proposal includes reinstating an asset test for Medi-Cal to address rising costs with the program for ...
Democrats push back on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed Medi-Cal changes for undocumented immigrants
An enrollment freeze and other possible changes to health care coverage for undocumented immigrants through the state’s Medi-Cal program, proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to help balance the budget, have ...
Newsom blames California’s $12 billion budget shortfall on tariffs, Medi-Cal spending on immigrants
Gov. Gavin Newsom said two factors are largely to blame for a $12 billion budget shortfall facing California: expanding ...
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Newsom has self to blame on budget
The California state budget has grown significantly under Gov. Gavin Newsom. In 2018-19, the state general fund budget spent $143 billion. Now, the governor is calling for over $226 billion in ...
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California faces $12 billion budget deficit. What Gavin Newsom wants to cut
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday morning that California is facing a shortfall of $12 billion for the upcoming budget year. Newsom’s office blamed the deficit on economic uncertainty caused by ...
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Gavin Newsom proposes $2,000 asset eligibility test to control soaring state Medi-Cal costs
In the last 10 years, he said, Medi-Cal costs have increased ... We have to balance the budget." Fox News Digital has reached out to Newsom’s office for comment.