Administration Newsom loses to Medi-Cal dollars

Gavor Gavin Newsom Governor’s administration has blown up an important federal period on Monday – resulting in which Millions of dollars left on the table This would be used to care for Medi-Cal, writes Calmatters’ ChristenS

In November Proposal 35Which requires revenue that the state receives from tax on health care plans to increase payments for doctors who accept Medi-Cal.

As the Medi-Cal-state health insurance program for low-income residents is funded with both state and federal money, California can use these tax revenue to request a federal dollar match.

But employees in the Newsom Administration failed to submit the relevant federal approval documents on time on March 31. This means that for the first quarter of the year, doctors will not receive the promised increases in interest rates and California will lose the matching federal dollars that would support the Medi-Cal program.

The California Health Director said the federal statement of the state had been detained as the Advisory Committee that controls Rev. 35 still has unfilled appointments. As the committee planned to convene for the first time on April 14, the Newsom office did not answer Calmatters’ questions about why an exceptional position remains vacant.

Over the past decade, legislators have expanded the eligibility of Medi-Cal and the program now covers almost 15 million Californians. But doctors say that the amount they were paid to see patients with Medi-Cal has not increased. Prop. 35 allocates $ 2 billion a year for 2025 and 2026 of the State General Fund and another $ 2 billion for higher payments to suppliers and other investments.

The missed deadline comes at a time of increased control over Medi-Cal costs. In March the Newsom Administration said We’ll have to borrow $ 6.2 billion To cover a difference in the Medi-Cal budget, which caused an immediate reaction from Republican legislators.

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By a CalMatters policy reporter Yue Stella Yu:

After hearing a heated committee, the California Democrats on Tuesday voted two Republican bills that would ban transsexual students from By competing in sports or Access to school facilities Under the sexual identity, students are aligned.

The hearing came the day after International Transsexual Visibility Day And weeks after governor Newsom supported a conservative conversation about conversations in his podcast, saying that the involvement of trans athletes in the sports of girls was “deeply unfair.” Therefore, the republican supporters of the bills were challenged His name repeatedly.

• Assembly Heather HadwickGrass Valley Republican, at a press conference after rumors: “Even governor Newsom agrees that this is simply not fair. We have to acknowledge the importance of spaces where girls can thrive without feeling shaded by unfair physical advantages.”

Lecturer Robert Rivas From Salinas, who appeared to the Commission to vote against the legislation, said there is no “epidemic” of transgender children who compete in the sport: “I will not support a bill that takes away rights from a protective class.”

It’s rarely for legislators In order to vote publicly “no” on bills, signaling that there is an exceptional dislike for these two bills more special.

The Newsom Office is reviewing a letter from US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, which threatens to refuse federal funding from California if he continues to allow trance athletes in girls’ sports. His service declined to say something about the pending legislation, but said Newsom “rejected the right -wing cynical experience to arm this debate as a justification for defilement of individual children” and that it “takes the back of no one on these issues.”

Charlie Baker, the President of NCAA, testifies in December That less than 10 out of over 500,000 athletes in the college in the United States are Transgender.

By a Calmatters Home Reporter Ben Christopher:

We all know The rent is too devilishly highS

In California the price of building The apartment for rent is also too devilishly high.

This is the extraction of a New study From research and political cerebral Trust, which found it cost more than twice as much to build a privately funded multi -family home in California than in Texas and 40% more than in Colorado.

The fact that California’s construction costs a lot is not news. Last week bilateral group legislators deployed a package of accounts aimed at facilitating the construction of homes.

But the survey seemed to be the first of its kind in drawing the financial data of actual projects.

Jason Ward, the lead author, said he had a constellation of reasons that California costs were so high. Many of them are related to local and state political decisions. These include profuse construction norms, complex processes of approval, local impact fees. Higher minimum wages For construction workers and extensive requirements related to sources of public funding.

Perhaps the most important is the way all of the above slow things down. In Texas, the typical development schedule is less than two years.

It is more than four in California.