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• Hanging in the Balance: Severe Cuts to Medi-Cal Eligibility, Benefits, and Provider Rates • Even Compromise Budget Would Cut Children's Coverage: More Than a Quarter-Million Kids to Lose Insurance By Anthony Wright Executive Director of Health Access California As the Governor and Legislature continue to negotiate over a budget deal TODAY, health advocates and all Californians are being urged to call their state legislators to voice opposition to the health care budget cuts, to urge passage of revenues, and to get other friends and colleagues to do the same. At stake are devastating health care budget cuts that would: • Leave one million more Californians uninsured--a majority of whom are children; • Require 3.5 million Californians--largely low-income parents, seniors, and people with disabilities--to pay more for health care, or get less in terms of specific health care benefits; • Make deep and destabilizing cuts to the health care system we all rely on, including 10% across-the-board cuts to the emergency rooms, hospitals, clinics and doctors that we all, by age or accident, will eventually use. We need to close the loopholes and raise the revenues and taxes needed to prevent these severe cuts to our health system. The Legislative Conference Committee has proposed a package that include some upper-income taxes and closing of loopholes; the Governor is rumored to have floated a sales tax. Any revenues are needed to prevent devastating cuts to health care. ACTION #1: CALL THE TOLL-FREE HOTLINES TODAY: To Reach State Senators: 800-480-3958 To Reach Assemblymembers: 800-960-7682 You will be connected to your state legislative office, and can leave a message for your state Assemblymember or Senator. • You can tell them why it is crucial for the state budget to prevent the worst of the cuts with revenues, and why it is so important to you, your family, and your community. • You can urge them to raise additional revenues to undo the worst of the cuts already approved, especially to children’s coverage—where a quarter-million children would be denied coverage as a result of the cuts.
