Straight from the halls of Washington D.C., local representatives joined forces with Santa Clara County officials Tuesday to defend the most vulnerable against sweeping federal cuts they say could devastate California’s second-largest public health and hospital system. Reps. Sam Liccardo and Zoe Lofgren, from Districts 16 and 18 respectively, rallied alongside County Executive James Williams outside Santa Clara Valley Medical Center to call for a stop to Medicaid cuts, known as Medi-Cal in California. The county relies on federal funding to serve its hospital system’s patients, roughly half of whom use Medi-Cal. It received $1.9 billion this year in Medi-Cal…
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