Gavin Newsom ‘literally drove Medi-Cal insolvent’ giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants

By Katy Grimes, June 1, 2026 6:30 am

Governor Gavin Newsom’s Medi-Cal program for low-income Californians is insolvent. We have Gavin Newsom to thank; he gifted free Medi-Cal coverage to every illegal immigrant in the state, costing taxpayers $23 billion over 2 years, forcing Newsom to get both an emergency loan and a bailout. And it is well-established that Gov. Newsom wants to continue to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants, as the Globe has covered for some time now.

Governor Jerry Brown first expanded Medi-Cal to allow illegal alien children in 2016. Newsom expanded Medi-Cal to all illegal aliens residing in the state.

The Trump administration will defer $1.3 billion in Medicaid funds to California, due to concerns over fraud, Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday.

Vance, alongside Mehmet Oz, administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the administration is launching more fraud enforcement efforts for Medicare and Medicaid in states across the country. The government sent letters to all 50 states calling for states to revalidate their providers of Medicare and Medicaid services.

“There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn’t taking its program seriously,” Vance said.

The vice president said many states that have Medicaid fraud deterrence programs have not properly utilized them to stop fraudulent activity. He said Hawaii has secured zero indictments or convictions while receiving funds to pursue fraudulent activities.

“They don’t think the fraud is a big enough problem,” Vance said. “They don’t care about protecting that Medicaid program.”

Vance also pointed to the Medicaid programs in New York, Minnesota, Ohio and Maryland as examples where fraud needs to be more aggressively pursued.

The Trump administration is suspending $1.1 billion in Medicaid funding from California’s home health program over fraud concerns, a move that state health officials and health advocates say could harm hundreds of thousands of seniors and people with disabilities.

At the center of the dispute is California’s In-home Supportive Services, or IHSS, which helps about 900,000 older Californians and people with disabilities with daily activities so they can remain in their homes instead of institutional settings.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, called it the “largest deferral we’ve ever made” at a Wednesday press conference. He said California is an outlier – its home health spending is growing at twice the rate of other states – and that the federal government will withhold Medicaid funds until the state can convincingly explain why.

We Californians now struggle with communist healthcare and the oppressive stronghold it is

By Patrick Wagner, MD, May 12, 2026 7:38 am

When in the course of California’s human medical events, it becomes necessary for the doctors and patients to dissolve their political bonds with Medi-Cal, run by Governor Gavin Newsom, they are entitled by God to declare the causes which impel them to this separation. And upon identification and clarification of those causes, it is mandatory to devise a new system of governance of the future medical events which will Make California Golden Again (MCGA).

By doing so, California will switch from the worst medical system in America and transform into the best and most powerful medical and common-sense system, thereby becoming the leading state in the union in helping President Trump Make America Great Again (MAGA).

Having established Medi-Cal as the law of the state, we Californians now struggle with communist healthcare and the oppressive stronghold it is. We made a bad choice, and have become very sick, weak, and woke. However, we were tricked. As such, communist healthcare has abandoned the Hippocratic Oath, established by Hippocrates as the laws of medicine, in 450 BC. Those covenants, including Honor, Teaching, Limitations, Abjuring Harm, Availability, and Privacy, are not included in the Medi-Cal agenda. Thus caring, empathetic, and compassionate treatment of patients is not part of this twisted, lying program. And yet, caring is the most important ingredient of the powerful process called healing, and we need it back!

They just keep creating new non-profits, hoping we won’t catch up to them

By Katy Grimes, May 4, 2026 12:22 pm

“First Partner Siebel Newsom celebrates state’s historic investments in youth mental health at South LA’s Exposition Park, blasts the headline in an email from Governor Gavin Newsom’s office.

We took care of that little glitch and rewrote the headline for them:

“First Partner Siebel Newsom Conflates CA’s Historic Spending on Youth Mental Health With Results”

When the state claims it is making an investment, buyer beware – the Newsom administration is spending money it does not have.

The email says:

What you need to know: Through the California Love, California Strong initiative, the First Partner alongside statewide partners highlighted the legacy and impact of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI) while also expanding access to vibrant community spaces like Exposition Park and new efforts such as the California Youth Mental Health Career Pathways initiative.

On an early spring evening in Glendale, a 37-year-old woman is withdrawn and weak from refusing food and water for several days. Her mother calls for help. She tells a crisis counselor her daughter has been hearing voices, and has expressed needing to “kill” those voices. She will not go to a doctor.

That’s when James Gonzalez and Katerina Cabello pull up. They’re in casual clothes – khakis and jeans, paired with sweatshirts. They sound no sirens in an unmarked white minivan.

Gonzalez and Cabello are one of 75 mobile crisis response teams Los Angeles County runs around the clock. Licensed and trained as first responders for behavioral health crises, these teams of two respond – in person, with backpacks and clipboards – to calls from 988, the crisis lifeline, or the county’s mental health helpline. Gonzalez and Cabello work for Sycamores, a nonprofit agency that contracts with the county.

Plus-size model Ashley Graham says weight-loss drugs like GLP-1 are a “smack in the face” to the “body positivity movement.”

Allow me to translate the above paragraph: An overweight supermodel is angry that a weight-loss drug is exposing a death cult as the dangerous hoax it always was.

“There was a pendulum that swung that was so body acceptance, positivity, everybody be who they want to be. And now it’s going back this whole opposite way that feels like a smack in the face to the women who have felt like they’ve had a voice,” Graham said in an interview. She went on to say the she hopes that there will be “women who are considered plus-size forever” and predicts that the drug won’t “wipe out a whole statistic of women,” People reported.

Few things have been more amusing to watch than the brand-spanking-new “body positivity” movement go up in flames with the arrival of this GLP-1 “miracle drug,” or as Donald Trump calls it, the “fat shot.”

When the government interferes with the business of doctors and patients, both suffer the consequences

By Patrick Wagner, MD, April 29, 2026 8:00 am

Our present California Medi-Cal healthcare system is a hopeless, sick, and non-caring mess, and is on a precipitous economic and moral decline. Believe me, I worked my way through it, survived it, rejected it, and am here to help you understand exactly how to heal it. It is time to build a hopeful, caring, and economically sound medical system, better and more caring and efficient when you get sick than ever before, and friendly and motivating such that you will get in for comprehensive routine checkups. It is best to head off diseases, including bankruptcy, discrimination, and many preventable and curable bread and butter diseases, treat them promptly to live as healthily as possible. My prognosis for adhering to some simple, “super” common-sense business steps to be outlined in this paper is the development of a high “quality of life” and vibrant medical system; the envy of the world. But to obtain miracles, we need a Truthful guide.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, most Americans, regardless of political beliefs, placed strong trust in the medical establishment. But that confidence took a major hit during the pandemic.

In April 2020, at the height of the outbreak, 71.5% of Americans said they had “a lot of trust” in physicians and hospitals. By January 2024, that number had plummeted to just 40.1%.

Today, that erosion of trust reflects a deeper concern. Many people believe healthcare decisions are no longer driven solely by patient well-being, but increasingly influenced by corporate interests and financial incentives.

Restoring trust in our healthcare system starts with one principle: putting patients before profits. That’s the mission driving The Wellness Company.

Dr. Peter McCullough and his colleagues have led a first-of-its-kind study exploring the use of Ivermectin + Mebendazole in cancer treatment, opening the door to a new line of investigation.

A Pasadena woman with a Hispanic surname has accused the state of California of racial discrimination, saying the state has illegally cut her and other non-Black mothers and young children off from state health benefits and support under its so-called Black Infant Health program.

Plaintiff Erica Jimenez filed the lawsuit on April 2 in Los Angeles federal court against the state and other government entities involved in administering the Black Infant Health program.

The lawsuit names as defendants the California Department of Public Health and its director, Dr. Erica Pan, as well as the L.A. County and Pasadena public health departments and their directors.

However, the lawsuit actually takes aim at the BIH program and the laws passed by the California state legislature to enact and fund the racially exclusive initiative.

Jimenez is represented in the action by attorneys from the nonprofit constitutional legal advocacy organization, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF).

The lawsuit specifically accuses the state of violating the rights of Jimenez and other non-black mothers and young children to equal protection, as guaranteed under the clause in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.

When Kekoa Gittens was 3, his preschool teacher told his mother he was a problem. He couldn’t sit still. He didn’t participate. When other kids learned the alphabet, he didn’t pay attention.

The next year, Kekoa’s classroom problems worsened. His mother, Sonia Gittens, took him to his pediatrician, who referred the boy to an eye doctor.

That doctor looked at the back of Kekoa’s eyes and diagnosed him with myopic degeneration, a dramatic form of nearsightedness.

“They are too little. They don’t know how to express themselves and say ‘I cannot see it, teacher,’” said Sonia Gittens, who lives in the Marin County town of Corte Madera.

The irrational Governor Newsom is failing and medicine has collapsed

By Patrick Wagner, MD, March 31, 2026 10:50 am

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free – John 8:32

It is a physician’s sworn responsibility to formulate a diagnosis and offer a treatment plan for an obviously harmful physical or mental condition or illness. Such is the case for the delusional Governor of California. Yes, Governor Newsom is displaying delusional behavior, which is characterized by his false, self-idolizing beliefs and judgments about external reality which he clings to despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. In his mind, and in the minds of those who vote for him, he is spectacularly good and is a healthcare god.

Newsom is becoming punier every day. He has trashed the medical profession, the relationship between doctor and patient, and the Spirit of Healing that is now demanding an end to his tyrannical grip on the medical profession and its mutual interdependence on its partner, the patients, for the affordability, competence, comfort, and safety of both. Newsom has broken the mutual trust of the doctor and the patient to the point where neither care about nor for each other anymore. On the contrary, in his sickened state, he believes that he is in complete control of the thoughts, actions, and attitudes of the doctors and most patients in California, which is the furthest from the truth!

Deals with the revocation of advance directives in California

By Chris Micheli, March 23, 2026 2:30 am

Division 4.7, Part 2, Chapter 1, Article 3 of the Probate Code deals with the revocation of advance directives in California.

Section 4695 provides that a patient having capacity may revoke the designation of an agent only by a signed writing or by personally informing the supervising health care provider.

Section 4696 allows a patient having capacity to revoke all or part of an advance health care directive, other than the designation of an agent, at any time and in any manner that communicates an intent to revoke.

Section 4696 states that a health care provider, agent, conservator, or surrogate who is informed of a revocation of an advance health care directive shall promptly communicate the fact of the revocation to the supervising health care provider and to any health care institution where the patient is receiving care.

Section 4697 provides that, if after executing a power of attorney for health care the principal’s marriage to the agent is dissolved or annulled, the principal’s designation of the former spouse as an agent to make health care decisions for the principal is revoked.

Good morning, and welcome to the March argument session, which includes the argument on birthright citizenship on Wednesday, April 1.

This Thursday, March 26, SCOTUSblog is teaming up with Briefly for a LinkedIn Live event about the birthright citizenship case. Briefly’s Adam Stofsky will interview Amy about each side’s key arguments, the court’s potential leanings, and what the eventual decision could mean for the country. The event will begin at noon EDT on Thursday. Register here. At the Court

On Friday, the court released its ruling in Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi. In a unanimous opinion from Justice Elena Kagan, the court held that a street preacher can sue to prevent future enforcement of the public demonstration ordinance that he was previously convicted of violating. For more on the ruling, see Kelsey’s opinion analysis in the On Site section below.

Also on Friday, the justices met in a private conference to discuss cases and vote on petitions for review. Orders from that conference are expected this morning at 9:30 a.m. EDT.

Today, the justices will hear argument in Watson v. Republican National Committee, on whether federal law requires not only that voters cast their ballots by Election Day, but also that election officials receive the ballots by then.

Tomorrow, the justices will hear argument in two cases: Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, on the rules pardoning omissions by bankrupt debtors; and Noem v. Al Otro Lado, on the rights of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Next week, on Wednesday, April 1, we will be live blogging as the Supreme Court hears argument in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case.

Four San Diego-area families allege that Rady Children’s Health violated the civil rights of their transgender children by deciding to discontinue gender-affirming care, according to a class action lawsuit filed Thursday.

The complaint, filed in San Diego County Superior Court, accuses the regional health system of discriminating against transgender children in violation of multiple state laws. It claims the roughly 1,900 patients of Rady’s gender clinic suffered harm from canceled appointments, inability to access medications such as hormone therapy and emotional distress caused by the hospital’s decision.

“By singling out transgender patients and terminating their medically necessary care without consent or concern for their physical and mental health, defendants have discriminated against plaintiffs on the basis of their sex, gender identity, and disability,” the complaint states.

Representatives for Rady did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The health system has not yet filed a response in court.

Adventist Health will be allowed to resume its legal claims against some of America's biggest pharmaceutical makers, ostensibly on behalf of the federal government, for allegedly overcharging so-called safety net hospitals and other low-income health care providers, allegedly making Medicare and Medicaid pay hundreds of millions of dollars more than they should have.

On March 17, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a federal judge should not have tossed Adventist's lawsuit.

In the ruling, the appeals judges said the lower court was wrong to determine that Adventist had improperly attempted to ostensibly press fraud claims on behalf of the federal government as a way of sidestepping the law governing the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program that would otherwise prohibit them from suing the drug makers directly for the alleged overcharges.

Adventist Health System of West had filed suit in 2021 in Los Angeles federal court against a collection of pharmaceutical maker defendants, including Abbvie, Allergan, Astrazeneca, Novartis, Sandoz Group, Genzyme and Sanofi, and related companies.

Roseville-based Adventist Health West operates 27 hospitals, as well as hundreds of other clinics and other health care facilities, in California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.

California Democratic candidates for governor can’t stop talking about single-payer health care — again.

The idea of a government-run universal health care program that would replace private insurance as the sole payer of health care costs faces as many headwinds as ever. It had fallen onto the backburner after Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers failed to get it done, with some balking at the $392 billion estimated annual cost.

Health advocates have since turned their focus to the impending Trump administration cuts to Medi-Cal, the state’s expanded government health coverage for low-income residents. Even so, the progressive rallying cry of “Medicare for All” has become a staple of Democratic platforms. Few of them offer any specifics on how they would make it happen.

Billions of dollars have been cut from California’s public health programs because of federal budget cuts, state health officials told lawmakers on Tuesday afternoon.

California state senators and Assembly members heard from officials about the impacts of federal budget cuts on health care programs, including Medi-Cal, during a joint committee hearing at the Capitol.

“The rollback of federal policies risks reversing hard-won progress,” Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland and chair of the Assembly Health Committee, said at the outset of the Sacramento hearing. “For many Californians, accessibility and affordability was already in question. More than half of Californians are worried about out-of-pocket expenses, long-term care and monthly premiums, concerns that now surpass anxiety about housing, groceries, transportation and utilities.”

During the hearing, officials from state and private health organizations told legislators that massive reductions of federal funding have been made to programs such as Medi-Cal, the Affordable Care Act and Covered California.

Those officials said threats to the state’s taxpayer-funded health programs total $900 billion in Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid. They also pointed to regulatory changes that would make less valuable health insurance plans available through Covered California and otherwise dismantle other types of federal funding that the state was previously able to count on.