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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Key Health Care Budget Proposals: Proposed Medi-Cal Cuts and Enrollment Changes Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is typically funded through a partnership between the state and the federal government. State-only Medi-Cal has allowed California to expand access to health care for populations excluded by federal policy.

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

When a child has risk factors but has not developed the disease, we must continue to provide preventive care and support for the family and appropriately match intensity and dose of the intervention. I see prevention working if we work together and have different programs in a variety of settings that have consistent messaging.

Family 52
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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

So putting that all together to prevent disasters is at the heart of what we’re trying to do. I know for a fact that the government or legislators looked to us in Permanente. So they told me I saved a life.” Also understanding where pharmacies would not be available because of the catastrophes that were going on.