The Big Beautiful Bill comes for Medi-Cal

By Amir Cornish

I am Amir Cornish from West Oakland, a youth poverty scholar. I'm a young adult that uses Medi-Cal to help with my health expenses. I can't afford my own expensive medical bill otherwise. I use my Med-cal to get check-ups as a low income person. Medi-Cal is the 900 billion state-federal health insurance program that covers low-income and disabled people and accounts for 19 % of all spending on hospital care.

"President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill would make changes to U.S health care, leaving millions without health insurance," said an anonymous person.

Recent changes to the bill would cut roughly 1.1 trillion in health-care spending and result in 11.8 million people losing health insurance over the decades, according to the nonpartisan budget office. Other estimates predict that the Trump bill with policy changes could result in an estimated 17 million people losing health insurance. 

Our current president Donald Trump passed the bill cutting off healthcare access to the people in our state who are low-income, who can’t pay without the help of Medi-Cal. The new policy requires people to work in order to be eligible for Medi-Cal.

The health industry's warnings to lawmakers have been dismissed because the hospitals, health centers, and other healthcare groups are seen by Republicans as strong backers of Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which is considered Democrats'  biggest domestic achievement in decades .

Many people relying on this health care act are low-in come people. Trump is cutting all of the medical insurance for a lot of elders that need that need it because they are not in the work force anymore.

This bill is going to affect everybody, not just low-income-people. The cuts will affect the working class.