California’s Medicaid version of Medi-Cal is spending on unrelated programs such as housing, running an extreme deficit, and the state has had to borrow more than $6 billion to save it.
As Breitbart News reported last month, Gavin Newsom’s administration had to seek a $6 billion loan to prevent the program from collapse due to the costs of covering illegal aliens they made last year.
Well, calmatters.org clearly The federal government is cracking down on Medi-Cal and other Medicaid providers that use money to support “rent support” and “medically tailored meals.”
In 2022, California cleaned it up Medicine A program that rethinks what health care looks like to some of the state’s poorest and most sick residents by covering services from housing to health food. But the future of that program is known as Karaimecould be at risk under the Trump administration.
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This move coincides with the newly confirmed narrow vision of Medicaid Dr. Mehmet Oz, Head of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Serviceshe said at the oath ceremony that Medicaid spending is congesting spending on state education and other services, where the federal government “pays a large portion of the bill.”
“This really bothers me. States that use Medicaid (Medicaid dollars for vulnerable people) use services that are not medical,” Oz said.
President Joe Biden has allowed California and other states to “experiment” Medicaid funding. And California spent almost soluble. The Trump administration has cracked down on its actions and argues that Medicaid spending is limited to medical expenses.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News; Breitbart News Sunday Sirius XM Patriot will be available Sundays from 7pm to 10pm (4pm to 7pm). He is the author of Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Daysyou can pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author Trump’s Virtue: Lessons and Legacy of President Donald TrumpIt is now available on Audible. He is the winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpollak.
