Congressman Lieu roundtable draws attention to Medi-Cal threat
Medi-Cal is Medicaid. It was one of the key points made by Congressman Ted Lieu at a “Medicaid Day of Action Roundtable” March 18 when various non-profit representatives gathered to list specific effects of a Congressional budget resolution that calls for $880 billion in cuts – which would have to come from Medicaid. If three Republicans vote against the final budget, and every Democrat, it would fail. It also calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts “for the super wealthy,” as Lieu described. He answered a question of, “Then what? If the budget fails,” by saying, “You don’t have to give $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the super-wealthy. How about $1 trillion instead? … As Abraham Lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” Representatives at the roundtable – held in Redondo Beach at allcove Beach Cities on the fourth floor of the former South Bay Hospital – included those from National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), South Bay Children’s Health Center, Redondo Unified School District, Venice Family Clinic, and a Medi-Cal patient and a youth advisory group member from allcove. Tuesday was the second such event…
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