What are the health impacts of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Santa Clara County residents?

Santa Clara County agents fear that Republicans big beautiful bill will rip a seismic tear in the country s social safety net as they brace for more than billion in lost federal revenues locally over the next insufficient years On July President Donald Trump signed his massive landmark bill into law putting into motion sweeping tax breaks and certain of the largest cuts in history to food assistance and masses fitness insurance programs Related Articles US has reclosed its southern limit after a flesh-eating parasite is seen further north in Mexico RFK Jr is scaring parents into asking doctors for early shots Judge grants trial delay in San Jose medical expert s injury claim from Los Gatos eatery s spicy Dragon Balls dish Californians might never know if their professional is an addict if bill passes Recipient sues Kaiser Permanente alleging infection linked to sterilization issue For months county leaders have tried to prepare for Trump s federal spending cuts replacing nearly million of federal funds with local dollars for housing general fitness and behavioral physical condition services in its in recent months adopted billion budget But the passage of House Resolution will now create an unprecedented fiscal situation for the county County Executive James Williams revealed Medicaid a federally funded community wellbeing insurance venture that s known as Medi-Cal in California is one of the critical services facing cutbacks to the tune of trillion over the next decade New work requirements to access Medicaid have also been imposed and more than million people nationwide and roughly million California residents are expected to lose their insurance as a product In Santa Clara County one in four residents are on Medi-Cal and Medicaid makes up the largest source of revenue for the Santa Clara Valley Healthcare system the second largest county-owned wellness and hospital system in the state At a press conference on Thursday afternoon Santa Clara Valley Healthcare CEO Paul Lorenz noted that reduced federal revenues from Medicaid will impact more than just the individuals who rely on the population wellbeing insurance plan which is for low-income individuals Without access to preventative wellbeing care people will turn to the urgency rooms when they are sick and in predicament he noted This results in increased costs delays in individual care longer wait times and ultimately it will impact the lives of individuals in our society our friends and our family members Supervisor Betty Duong called the tax cut bill cruel insidious and nothing short of a death sentence for so numerous in our society When crisis rooms are flooded when our ambulances are tied up and there are none left available we will all pay as a society she reported We re not just going to pay now we re going to pay for generations to come for what this bill is going to do to undermine the strength of our population The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Activity which provides food benefits for more than million Americans will also face sharp cutbacks and have new work requirements for eligibility In California roughly million residents rely on SNAP called CalFresh locally including million children and nearly million seniors Bay Area food banks have been sounding the alarm that cutting SNAP could end in the loss of billion meals per year nationwide and strain already overwhelmed hunger-relief efforts Williams on Thursday called on the state to step up While he acknowledged that California which has had its own fiscal challenges this year can t fully fill the gap he wants them to soften the edges to mitigate rather than exacerbate those cuts Population hospitals in California make up only of the state s hospitals Williams revealed But community hospitals like ours represent over of the trauma and burn centers in the state and train over of doctors in California We are the backbone for that critical care across California