Mia Bonta pleads for ‘pandemic-level’ response to Feds’ gutting of Medi-Cal

Most people would rather not return to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. To address California’s current health care landscape, Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Alameda, says we must.

“We should be responding to this moment as if it were another example of the pandemic,” she said. “We should be having a COVID-level response.” “This moment,” for Bonta, is a series of political shocks reshaping California’s health care system — most notably the federal “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” or House Resolution 1, signed last July, which altered everything from how states fund Medicaid to who qualifies for coverage.