Low-income residents in Santa Clara County are losing their state-sponsored health care at a time when the public hospital system is experiencing unprecedented demand for services. Medi-Cal members dropped from 458,000 to 425,000 in the county between June 2023 to January, according to a report released last month. Yet the Social Security Administration said these numbers are comparable to pre-pandemic levels, while health advocates said insuring people will be crucial to avoiding already overcrowded emergency rooms at local hospitals. “The numbers are actually normal and mirror what they were before the pandemic, which is shocking to us too because we…
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