North Bay lawmakers hold town hall discussion on federal health care cuts, hospitals’ dire fiscal outlook

State and federal lawmakers in Santa Rosa painted a dire picture Tuesday of the impacts of federal health care cuts under the Trump administration, including skyrocketing insurance premiums, the loss of health coverage for millions of Californians and the likely closure of rural hospitals and community clinics...

...Huffman and Thompson both said they were doing what they could to oppose further erosion of the federal health care safety net. They stressed the importance of Democrats taking back control of Congress in the November general election.

“You can’t take $1 trillion dollars out of health care and expect us to have any type of viable health care,” Thompson said, adding that the result will be an estimated 15 million Americans losing their coverage under Medicaid, the federal program for lower income households and disabled individuals...

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