To the editor: As Congress considers a sweeping legislative bundle that features deep cuts to Medicaid, Californians ought to pay shut consideration (“White House pushes for quick approval of ‘big, beautiful bill,’ but key hurdles remain,” Might 19). The Congressional Finances Workplace estimates that proposed adjustments would strip well being protection from no less than 7.6 million Individuals by 2034, a devastating blow to households already dealing with critical well being challenges.
Fortunately, Reps. Younger Kim and David Valadao took a powerful stance, writing to Home management, “We can’t and won’t assist a ultimate reconciliation invoice that features any discount in Medicaid protection for susceptible populations.” This assertion is welcome information to the tens of millions of Californians who depend on Medicaid, together with these battling power ailments corresponding to most cancers or liver illness.
Proposed cuts, together with work necessities, create unnecessary red tape and increase wasteful administrative spending. In truth, 92% of working-age people with Medicaid protection are already working or are bodily unable to work as a result of power sickness or incapacity. As the chief director of the Liver Coalition of California, I’m becoming a member of with the American Most cancers Society Most cancers Motion Community to demand that our representatives proceed to vote towards cuts to Medicaid in any kind. Healthcare shouldn’t be used as a bargaining chip.
Scott Suckow, San Diego
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To the editor: According to Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Faculty of Regulation, hidden in President Trump’s “large, stunning” finances invoice is a provision that can prohibit any courtroom, together with the Supreme Courtroom, from stopping the administration from imposing a contempt ruling on any case except there was a bond included within the case. Clearly, it’s uncommon {that a} federal case would require a bond, leaving the courts with virtually no energy to cease these circumstances.
If it isn’t faraway from the Home invoice and is handed by the Senate, the courts will basically be powerless. This implies Congress, which has voluntarily relinquished any duty to cease the administration, and the courts can have little recourse to stop this nation from collapsing into an authoritarian dictatorship.
Carole Lutness, Valencia
