Do we really want to cut Medicare and Medicaid by $400 billion. based upon what we know about the effects of these cuts? The impact of these cuts on would affect California enormouslymore than almost every other State. California will be particularly affected by these cuts because it has a large and growing population of 31 million residents. a high20 percentMedicaid rate. a high23 percentuninsurance rate. an extremely large2 millionpopulation of illegal immigrants. and high health care costs despite the spread of managed care and the tremendous success of group purchasing alliances. For California. $256 billion in Medicare cuts could cause $34 billion in total cuts to California hospitals and patients over the next 7 years. according to the Health Care Finance Administration. Despite having only 9.5 percent of the Nations Medicare population.
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