Los recortes a Medicaid podrían afectar a todos (sí, incluso a ti). He aquí por qué.

After federal tax changes cut nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid nationwide over the coming decade, California faces an estimated thirty billion dollar annual loss in Medi-Cal funding, with two-point-two million residents projected to lose coverage by twenty thirty. Per CalMatters, the damage extends far beyond the uninsured: when hospitals must treat uninsured patients for free, they cut costs everywhere—laying off staff, eliminating services, or closing emergency departments—meaning everyone with private insurance faces reduced access, longer wait times, and higher premiums. The precedent is sobering: the twenty-oh-seven closure of Martin Luther King Jr. Harbor in Los Angeles spiked emergency room wait times across the region to over eleven hours and increased death rates in neighboring facilities, a domino effect California's healthcare infrastructure now braces to repeat.

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