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

Santa Clara County authorities 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 scarce 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 inhabitants fitness insurance programs Related Articles US has reclosed its southern perimeter 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 practitioner s injury claim from Los Gatos eatery s spicy Dragon Balls dish Californians might never know if their healthcare provider is an addict if bill passes Person 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 inhabitants fitness and behavioral wellness services in its in the past few days adopted billion budget But the passage of House Resolution will now create an unprecedented fiscal situation for the county County Executive James Williams disclosed Medicaid a federally funded citizens wellness insurance undertaking 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 development 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 wellbeing and hospital system in the state At a press conference on Thursday afternoon Santa Clara Valley Healthcare CEO Paul Lorenz mentioned that reduced federal revenues from Medicaid will impact more than just the individuals who rely on the citizens healthcare insurance activity 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 dilemma he disclosed This results in increased costs delays in person care longer wait times and ultimately it will impact the lives of individuals in our public 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 a multitude of in our locality 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 revealed 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 healthcare of our society The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan 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 consequence 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 Populace hospitals in California make up only of the state s hospitals Williams noted But society 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