Dozens of people staged a die-in in East Oakland under the sun, holding cardboard gravestones with messages about lack of suicide hotline access, homelessness, unaffordable insurance, and rural hospital closures. Many participants were hospital and emergency staff and people covered by Medicare or Medi-Cal. More than 100 East Bay residents protested President Donald Trump’s healthcare funding cuts outside Eastmont Town Center. H.R. 1 includes nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade, with estimates of about 12 million Americans losing medical insurance. California could lose up to 2 million Medi-Cal enrollees, and Alameda County’s hospital system could lose hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding. The bill also risks CalFresh cuts affecting over 3 million households statewide, including about 179,000 Alameda recipients. Starting June 1, California will enforce a CalFresh work requirement for adults without children, limiting benefits to three months unless work hours are met, with some exemptions.
"H.R. 1 also puts over 3 million households statewide at risk of losing food assistance due to cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, called CalFresh in California. Around 179,000 people in Alameda receive these benefits. Last year, the county spent extra money on food aid to try to soften the blow. Starting June 1, Californians ages 18 to 65 without children will only be able to keep their CalFresh benefits for more than three months if they can prove that they work up to 20 hours per week or 80 hours per month."
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