"Medicaid reimbursements serve as the single largest revenue source for Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, and Trump's legislation slashes the federally funded health insurance program over the next decade, leaving the county with a roughly $1 billion funding gap. At the meeting, Williams called the cuts "unprecedented" and said they posed an "acute threat" to the county. Measure A, a five-eighths-of-a-cent sales tax increase, would help preserve access to health care services that one in four county residents rely on, he argued."
"Rosen this week blamed a change in the ballot measure language as the reason he believed public safety would be getting some of the funds. A lawsuit from a group of Libertarians back in August prompted county officials to edit the text - including the addition of public safety among the "critical local services" that revenues from the sales tax increase would support."
Santa Clara County faces a roughly $1 billion funding gap after proposed federal Medicaid reimbursement cuts tied to the 2017 tax and spending bill. County executives placed Measure A, a five-eighths-of-a-cent sales tax increase, on the ballot to preserve health care access for about one in four residents and to avoid broader service and public safety cutbacks. A Libertarian lawsuit prompted edits to ballot language that added public safety among services the revenue could support. The district attorney initially endorsed the measure to avert cuts but later criticized county officials for proposing to spend all revenues solely on health care.
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