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Supervisor Betty Duong noted that since 2010, the Labor Commissioner’s Office has issued over $35 million in unpaid wage theft judgments in the county alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wage theft isn’t a victimless crime. It’s the theft of rent money, grocery money and child care money,” Duong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failure to collect disproportionately impacts vulnerable groups. According to Wahab, workers in industries like construction — many of whom are immigrants and English language learners — are highly susceptible to wage theft and rarely see payments after winning their claims. Collection statistics underscore this crisis: a 2023 California State Auditor \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2023-104/\">report\u003c/a> found that the Labor Commission only fully collected on 12% of judgments between 2018 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some days at the Law Center’s clinic and on the advice line, I will get five or six clients coming in, or callers calling, that have not got wage theft judgment paid for years and years,” Taube said. “And it’s a huge problem, and it’s heartbreaking to hear their stories because they’ve actually done the work, went through a hearing, and a judgment was recorded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County’s own programs served as a model for SB 261. 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The Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051250/santa-clara-county-voters-could-pay-more-sales-tax-due-to-trump-cuts\">voted unanimously\u003c/a> in August to place Measure A on the ballot, which will raise an estimated $330 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said the mailer cost roughly $250,000 to send to over 700,000 households in the county. Under the headline “An Important Update from Santa Clara County,” Williams wrote that “due to the federal Medi-Cal cuts, our County-run hospitals and clinics are at risk of closure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county currently operates four public hospitals: O’Connor Hospital, Regional Medical Center and Valley Medical Center in San José, and Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy. The Yes on A campaign has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059539/with-measure-a-santa-clara-county-hopes-to-keep-hospitals-afloat\">run on a message\u003c/a> of “Save Our Local Hospitals,” leaning heavily on the potential threat to these medical centers.[aside label=\"2025 California Special Election\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/measure-a,Learn about Measure A in Santa Clara County' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Aside-2025-Special-Election-Voter-Guide-Santa-Clara-County-Measure-A-1200x675-1.png]Local government officials are not allowed to use taxpayer dollars to explicitly advocate for or against a ballot measure or candidate, but they can provide residents with informational materials about issues on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t even do that — it doesn’t mention the measure,” Williams said. “This is talking about the federal cuts, and we unquestionably have the ability to do that, but more importantly, the responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Supreme Court has ruled that judges should evaluate claims of illegal electioneering by analyzing whether the \u003ca href=\"https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/stanson-v-mott-27987\">“style, tenor, and timing”\u003c/a> of the communication makes it campaign-related or informational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davina Hurt, director of government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said the Santa Clara County mailer “gets right up to the borderline” between ethical and unethical behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The timing and the tone truly matter,” she said. “And here, there are definitely language and words used that make you question whether this is more advocacy rather than informing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurt, the former mayor of Belmont, said it is also important to consider whether similar community updates are regularly sent to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said the county has generally provided updates alongside property tax bills. 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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials are worried about how big cuts to Medicaid under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will hurt the area’s four county-run hospitals, which rely heavily on Medicaid reimbursements. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/electionsnews\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, voters are being asked to weigh in on Measure A, which would increase the county sales tax by 0.625% over 5 years to fill in roughly one-third of the county’s projected annual losses from federal cuts.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/electionsnews\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/measure-a\">Measure A voter guide\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4103737000\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center is unique. It’s one of the few certified burn centers in Northern California, treating patients from Santa Clara County and beyond. But thanks to President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, staff at public hospitals like Valley Medical are on edge. Huge federal cuts to Medicaid are expected to put public hospitals like it in big financial trouble, enough to risk shutting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Betty Duong \u003c/strong>[00:00:43] We can’t go down without a fight. This is our way of fighting. We’re turning to our voters, and I have every confidence that the legacy and the history and the values of this community will be to protect each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] Santa Clara County voters will decide on Measure A, an increase in the county sales tax that proponents say will help keep hospitals afloat. But opponents say it’s time to reimagine the role of the area’s public hospitals entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liang Chao \u003c/strong>[00:01:20] This is like a knee-jerk reaction to something happening on federal government and kind of taking advantage of the federal cut as an excuse to tax the voters more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:36] Today, we break down Measure A and Santa Clara County’s unprecedented approach to saving local hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:51] Why is what’s happening at the federal level and these cuts to Medicaid expected to be so devastating for Santa Clara County?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:58] Yeah, I think in particular with Santa Clara County, you’re talking about a public health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] Guy Marzorati is a politics and government correspondent for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:11] So these are public hospitals, and public hospitals in California serve an overwhelming share of patients who are on Medi-Cal, which is our state’s version of Medicaid. This is health insurance for people with low incomes, with disabilities, and so these hospitals end up caring for a large share of those patients, and the way the hospitals get paid for providing those services is largely through reimbursements and payments from the federal government. What we’re seeing through the one Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Trump signed this summer is a huge reduction in federal funding for Medicaid and also an expectation going forward that there will be fewer people on Medicaid, so fewer people with this kind of health insurance, but if those people show up at the hospital, they’re still gonna get treatment. What’s gonna change is there’s not gonna be necessarily the payments to go along with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] And you mentioned these county run hospitals. Can you tell me a little bit more about them and what they do and who they really serve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:18] Yeah, so Santa Clara is unique in that the county has these four publicly run hospitals. Valley Med right in San Jose is kind of the flagship of the hospital system. But what we’ve seen in Santa Clara County in recent years is the county has acquired hospitals. They’ve bought hospitals that are struggling financially. We saw that just recently, last year, with Regional Medical Center. And this really is a case of hospitals that, in a lot of other counties, would have just closed their doors. They wouldn’t have had enough money to operate. They would have shut down. Santa Clara County is in a really unique position because it’s a relatively wealthy county compared to others in California. But there’s also huge disparities in income, so there are huge proportions of residents who rely on public hospitals. And so the county has stepped in in these cases and said, we’re actually gonna take on the cost. We’re gonna purchase these hospitals. But all of that was done with an expectation of this existing model where the federal government through Medicaid is helping to support the cause. Now that that doesn’t exist anymore in its previous form, that’s why you have all this uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:39] And I know you spoke with a nurse who works at one of these county-run hospitals. Can you tell me about Emiko Rivera and what she tells you about what it’s like to be working at these hospitals right now and the uncertainty that must be hanging over everything?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:58] Yeah, so Emiko Rivera is a nurse at the burn center at Valley Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emiko Rivera \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] I started in the Burn Center about 17 years ago as a new grad. I graduated from San Jose State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] You know, with her, I think it’s a lot of uncertainty, like with a lot of other I think healthcare workers, because we don’t know exactly what the ramifications of the cuts are going to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emiko Rivera \u003c/strong>[00:05:25] Because the burn center is vital for our community and for the region. So personally, I wanna make sure that we maintain our burn services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] In Rivera’s case, you know, the burn center that she works at treats patients from really all across the region. There aren’t many burn centers like this in California that are connected to trauma centers and that are able to serve in this kind of emergency capacity. So they are actually treating patients beyond Santa Clara County’s borders. And so what she talks about is ramifications that will actually go beyond the county and could end up affecting really people throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emiko Rivera \u003c/strong>[00:06:06] Nobody is immune to a burn injury. It doesn’t matter if you are houseless or if you have millions of dollars, everybody’s going to the same place and that’s our burn center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:22] These cuts have largely not taken effect yet. This is something that’s gonna play out in the coming years. So I think there’s concern, you know, do hospitals stay open? Is there staffing issues? Can clinics operate as they currently do? But we don’t have any hard answers as to what actually is going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:46] So how does Santa Clara County plan to address this problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:51] What Santa Clara County is facing is not unique. Hospitals across California have been struggling, especially in rural areas in recent years, even before these Medicaid cuts. But now we’ve seen that crisis spread to a wealthy county in Silicon Valley. And what makes the response different in Santa Clara county is that they’re going to the voters and asking for money to help kind of bridge these cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:18] And that is, of course, why we’re talking today. You’re talking about measure A. Tell me a little bit more about it, Guy. What would it do and how much is it expected to raise?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:07:31] So measure A is an increase in the county sales tax of about 0.6% for five years. And that’s paid on goods that people buy at stores. There’s certain goods that are exempted, I believe, like groceries, and is expected to bring in $330 million. Now, that is well short of the amount of money the county is expecting to lose because of these federal cuts. So this alone will not solve the issue that the county has facing. There will still probably have to be some cutbacks. There’s still going to be a lot of advocacy, I think, from county leaders asking the state government for more money in this realm. But what supporters of Measure A have, the picture that they have painted is that passing this sales tax, bringing in this 300 plus million dollars every year will allow them to avoid the worst consequences of the federal cuts. And what they’ve billed this as is save the hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:48] Tell me a little bit more about the people who are really backing Measure A in Santa Clara County right now. Who is for it and what is the argument that they’re making?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:58] The board of supervisors voted unanimously five to zero in August to put Measure A on the ballot. So they’ve really been the biggest supporters of this idea from the beginning to put this sales tax in front of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Betty Duong \u003c/strong>[00:09:11] Other counties, their response to this to close the gap, the budget gap, is to close down their hospitals. This county cannot let that happen without a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:20] I talked with Betty Duong, she’s a supervisor in District 2 in San Jose. She was born at a county hospital. She said that these are facilities that her family has used throughout her entire life and are kind of bedrocks of the community. She doesn’t want to see the hospitals closed. That’s why she’s putting her support behind Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Betty Duong \u003c/strong>[00:09:40] There is no other hole in the budget this big, so this $330 million that’s projected to be generated on an annual basis covers one-third of the $1 billion plus gap that we have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:57] And you’ve seen across the board that the county district attorney, the county sheriff, local congress members, local members of the state legislature, Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, other local officials all putting their support behind Measure A, because I think there is concern that, look, there are hospitals in Santa Clara County that are not run by the county, but there’s a fear that if you start to see cutbacks at these public facilities, they’re going to be ripple effects and, you know, that will spill over to other health care. Facilities, other hospitals in terms of crowding, in terms of lack of services in certain parts of the county. And so I think that’s what all these folks who are supporting measure A are trying to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:41] Is there anyone against Measure A? What’s the argument they’re making?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] We have seen some local elected officials come out against Measure A in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liang Chao \u003c/strong>[00:10:51] I think this is like a knee-jerk reaction to something happening on federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] Liang Chao is the mayor of Cupertino. You know, she points out to begin with that Measure A is just a general sales tax. So while the campaign for Measure A might say, this is about bringing in money for the healthcare system and saving the hospitals, she makes the point which is true, technically this money could be spent on anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liang Chao \u003c/strong>[00:11:18] So that’s kind of not very honest. So many people agree it’s important to provide healthcare for everyone. But is sales tax at this point in the special election the right thing to do at the last moment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:38] And I think that the larger point that Chao brings up and other opponents of Measure A have brought up is that the status quo for the county running these four hospitals is simply not sustainable. That with the lack of money coming in from the federal government through Medicaid going forward into the future, that it’s just not possible for the county to be operating these hospitals. We’ve seen since the county has purchased some of these hospitals, healthcare costs have become a huge part of the county budget. And Chow and others have made the argument that this is the time not to go back to the well and bring in more money into the system, but this is time to reevaluate whether the system as it exists really can be maintained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liang Chao \u003c/strong>[00:12:22] I think if they don’t reform the hospitals, they will have the hospitals closing anyway, no matter how much money you throw at it. And we also need to decide, do we need all four hospitals, right? 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And you’re seeing that a lot of those themes echoed in the statewide campaign for Proposition 50 about redistricting. These two measures will appear right next to each other on the ballot in November. And so I think if you’re in this space where especially democratic voters have an appetite for measures and proposals that they feel like gives them some sense of agency and pushing back against some of the things that have happened at the federal level. Measure A fits right into that lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:56] And Guy, if this were to pass, you mentioned it doesn’t fully cover the losses that are expected to be incurred by the big, beautiful bill. And so it sounds like this is really just one piece of the conversation and that more conversations will have to be had about how to really keep these hospitals afloat, even if Measure A is passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:20] That’s exactly right. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center is unique. It’s one of the few certified burn centers in Northern California, treating patients from Santa Clara County and beyond. But thanks to President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, staff at public hospitals like Valley Medical are on edge. Huge federal cuts to Medicaid are expected to put public hospitals like it in big financial trouble, enough to risk shutting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Betty Duong \u003c/strong>[00:00:43] We can’t go down without a fight. This is our way of fighting. We’re turning to our voters, and I have every confidence that the legacy and the history and the values of this community will be to protect each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] Santa Clara County voters will decide on Measure A, an increase in the county sales tax that proponents say will help keep hospitals afloat. But opponents say it’s time to reimagine the role of the area’s public hospitals entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liang Chao \u003c/strong>[00:01:20] This is like a knee-jerk reaction to something happening on federal government and kind of taking advantage of the federal cut as an excuse to tax the voters more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:36] Today, we break down Measure A and Santa Clara County’s unprecedented approach to saving local hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:51] Why is what’s happening at the federal level and these cuts to Medicaid expected to be so devastating for Santa Clara County?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:58] Yeah, I think in particular with Santa Clara County, you’re talking about a public health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] Guy Marzorati is a politics and government correspondent for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:11] So these are public hospitals, and public hospitals in California serve an overwhelming share of patients who are on Medi-Cal, which is our state’s version of Medicaid. This is health insurance for people with low incomes, with disabilities, and so these hospitals end up caring for a large share of those patients, and the way the hospitals get paid for providing those services is largely through reimbursements and payments from the federal government. What we’re seeing through the one Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Trump signed this summer is a huge reduction in federal funding for Medicaid and also an expectation going forward that there will be fewer people on Medicaid, so fewer people with this kind of health insurance, but if those people show up at the hospital, they’re still gonna get treatment. What’s gonna change is there’s not gonna be necessarily the payments to go along with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] And you mentioned these county run hospitals. Can you tell me a little bit more about them and what they do and who they really serve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:18] Yeah, so Santa Clara is unique in that the county has these four publicly run hospitals. Valley Med right in San Jose is kind of the flagship of the hospital system. But what we’ve seen in Santa Clara County in recent years is the county has acquired hospitals. They’ve bought hospitals that are struggling financially. We saw that just recently, last year, with Regional Medical Center. And this really is a case of hospitals that, in a lot of other counties, would have just closed their doors. They wouldn’t have had enough money to operate. They would have shut down. Santa Clara County is in a really unique position because it’s a relatively wealthy county compared to others in California. But there’s also huge disparities in income, so there are huge proportions of residents who rely on public hospitals. And so the county has stepped in in these cases and said, we’re actually gonna take on the cost. We’re gonna purchase these hospitals. But all of that was done with an expectation of this existing model where the federal government through Medicaid is helping to support the cause. Now that that doesn’t exist anymore in its previous form, that’s why you have all this uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:39] And I know you spoke with a nurse who works at one of these county-run hospitals. Can you tell me about Emiko Rivera and what she tells you about what it’s like to be working at these hospitals right now and the uncertainty that must be hanging over everything?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:58] Yeah, so Emiko Rivera is a nurse at the burn center at Valley Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emiko Rivera \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] I started in the Burn Center about 17 years ago as a new grad. I graduated from San Jose State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] You know, with her, I think it’s a lot of uncertainty, like with a lot of other I think healthcare workers, because we don’t know exactly what the ramifications of the cuts are going to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emiko Rivera \u003c/strong>[00:05:25] Because the burn center is vital for our community and for the region. So personally, I wanna make sure that we maintain our burn services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] In Rivera’s case, you know, the burn center that she works at treats patients from really all across the region. There aren’t many burn centers like this in California that are connected to trauma centers and that are able to serve in this kind of emergency capacity. So they are actually treating patients beyond Santa Clara County’s borders. And so what she talks about is ramifications that will actually go beyond the county and could end up affecting really people throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emiko Rivera \u003c/strong>[00:06:06] Nobody is immune to a burn injury. It doesn’t matter if you are houseless or if you have millions of dollars, everybody’s going to the same place and that’s our burn center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:22] These cuts have largely not taken effect yet. This is something that’s gonna play out in the coming years. So I think there’s concern, you know, do hospitals stay open? Is there staffing issues? Can clinics operate as they currently do? But we don’t have any hard answers as to what actually is going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:46] So how does Santa Clara County plan to address this problem?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:51] What Santa Clara County is facing is not unique. Hospitals across California have been struggling, especially in rural areas in recent years, even before these Medicaid cuts. But now we’ve seen that crisis spread to a wealthy county in Silicon Valley. And what makes the response different in Santa Clara county is that they’re going to the voters and asking for money to help kind of bridge these cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:18] And that is, of course, why we’re talking today. You’re talking about measure A. Tell me a little bit more about it, Guy. What would it do and how much is it expected to raise?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:07:31] So measure A is an increase in the county sales tax of about 0.6% for five years. And that’s paid on goods that people buy at stores. There’s certain goods that are exempted, I believe, like groceries, and is expected to bring in $330 million. Now, that is well short of the amount of money the county is expecting to lose because of these federal cuts. So this alone will not solve the issue that the county has facing. There will still probably have to be some cutbacks. There’s still going to be a lot of advocacy, I think, from county leaders asking the state government for more money in this realm. But what supporters of Measure A have, the picture that they have painted is that passing this sales tax, bringing in this 300 plus million dollars every year will allow them to avoid the worst consequences of the federal cuts. And what they’ve billed this as is save the hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:48] Tell me a little bit more about the people who are really backing Measure A in Santa Clara County right now. Who is for it and what is the argument that they’re making?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:58] The board of supervisors voted unanimously five to zero in August to put Measure A on the ballot. So they’ve really been the biggest supporters of this idea from the beginning to put this sales tax in front of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Betty Duong \u003c/strong>[00:09:11] Other counties, their response to this to close the gap, the budget gap, is to close down their hospitals. This county cannot let that happen without a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:20] I talked with Betty Duong, she’s a supervisor in District 2 in San Jose. She was born at a county hospital. She said that these are facilities that her family has used throughout her entire life and are kind of bedrocks of the community. She doesn’t want to see the hospitals closed. That’s why she’s putting her support behind Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Betty Duong \u003c/strong>[00:09:40] There is no other hole in the budget this big, so this $330 million that’s projected to be generated on an annual basis covers one-third of the $1 billion plus gap that we have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:57] And you’ve seen across the board that the county district attorney, the county sheriff, local congress members, local members of the state legislature, Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, other local officials all putting their support behind Measure A, because I think there is concern that, look, there are hospitals in Santa Clara County that are not run by the county, but there’s a fear that if you start to see cutbacks at these public facilities, they’re going to be ripple effects and, you know, that will spill over to other health care. Facilities, other hospitals in terms of crowding, in terms of lack of services in certain parts of the county. And so I think that’s what all these folks who are supporting measure A are trying to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:41] Is there anyone against Measure A? What’s the argument they’re making?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] We have seen some local elected officials come out against Measure A in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liang Chao \u003c/strong>[00:10:51] I think this is like a knee-jerk reaction to something happening on federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:00] Liang Chao is the mayor of Cupertino. You know, she points out to begin with that Measure A is just a general sales tax. So while the campaign for Measure A might say, this is about bringing in money for the healthcare system and saving the hospitals, she makes the point which is true, technically this money could be spent on anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liang Chao \u003c/strong>[00:11:18] So that’s kind of not very honest. So many people agree it’s important to provide healthcare for everyone. But is sales tax at this point in the special election the right thing to do at the last moment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:38] And I think that the larger point that Chao brings up and other opponents of Measure A have brought up is that the status quo for the county running these four hospitals is simply not sustainable. That with the lack of money coming in from the federal government through Medicaid going forward into the future, that it’s just not possible for the county to be operating these hospitals. We’ve seen since the county has purchased some of these hospitals, healthcare costs have become a huge part of the county budget. And Chow and others have made the argument that this is the time not to go back to the well and bring in more money into the system, but this is time to reevaluate whether the system as it exists really can be maintained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liang Chao \u003c/strong>[00:12:22] I think if they don’t reform the hospitals, they will have the hospitals closing anyway, no matter how much money you throw at it. And we also need to decide, do we need all four hospitals, right? And maybe we can have a really good plan for a smaller number, but really well successfully run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:43] Do we have any sense, really, of how likely voters are to pass this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] You know, I don’t have any really concrete public polling that’s been done in recent weeks since this campaign has really gotten underway. I will say the yes side on Measure A has a massive financial advantage. They have raised over $2 million and there really hasn’t been any fundraising on the no side. So if you drive around the South Bay, you’re going to see these yes on A placards in people’s lawns. There’s been a lot of mail pieces that I’ve gotten in my mailbox in support of Measure A and you’re not seeing that as much on the no side, you know, a lot of the messaging for Measure A has been framed as giving voters an opportunity to push back against what Trump did. And you’re seeing that a lot of those themes echoed in the statewide campaign for Proposition 50 about redistricting. These two measures will appear right next to each other on the ballot in November. And so I think if you’re in this space where especially democratic voters have an appetite for measures and proposals that they feel like gives them some sense of agency and pushing back against some of the things that have happened at the federal level. Measure A fits right into that lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:56] And Guy, if this were to pass, you mentioned it doesn’t fully cover the losses that are expected to be incurred by the big, beautiful bill. And so it sounds like this is really just one piece of the conversation and that more conversations will have to be had about how to really keep these hospitals afloat, even if Measure A is passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:20] That’s exactly right. Because the loss to the county, when you add in the Medicaid cuts, cuts to CalFresh food assistance that all came through that federal bill, you’re talking about a hit that’s gonna be over a billion dollars a year by the end of this decade. So $330 million a year is not gonna completely solve that. There’s still gonna have to be some really difficult budget negotiations to try to figure this out. Officials say measure a is basically just our stopgap. It’s our ability to you know, keep the system going as is and again I think opponents would say you’re just you know Scooping water out of a sinking ocean liner like there needs to be a larger conversation here beyond just pouring a little bit more money in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:08] Well, Guy, thank you so much for breaking this down. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The sun was just rising over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara\u003c/a> Valley Medical Center when nurse Emiko Rivera arrived to begin her shift at the hospital’s burn center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of the few certified burn centers in Northern California, Rivera’s team treats patients from across the region, caring for their wounds while also providing counseling and support to help them return to their jobs or schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our burn patients come in and sometimes are with us for months at a time with their injuries,” she said. “As a burn nurse, it is being with them day by day, being with their families, providing support in addition to providing their care and building those relationships so that we can have a successful recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, a pall of uncertainty has spread over the sprawling Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Donald Trump in July, enacted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\">historic cuts\u003c/a> to Medicaid, the health care program for people with low incomes and disabilities. Medicaid — known as Medi-Cal in California — is the single largest revenue source for Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, the county health system that serves patients regardless of their ability to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about burn injuries is that nobody is immune to a burn injury,” Rivera said. “It doesn’t matter if you are houseless or if you have millions of dollars. Everybody’s going to the same place, and that’s our burn center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burn nurse Emiko Rivera treats patients at one of the region’s few certified burn centers. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, hospitals providing expensive emergency services to Medicaid patients have struggled to balance their books, especially in rural areas. But the latest federal cuts have spread the crisis to Silicon Valley, where local leaders are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051250/santa-clara-county-voters-could-pay-more-sales-tax-due-to-trump-cuts\">asking voters to provide a lifeline\u003c/a> in the form of Measure A, a sales tax increase on the ballot in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the single largest revenue loss for the county organization, and therefore the services that we’re able to provide to the community, since the passage of Proposition 13,” Santa Clara County Executive James Williams told the Board of Supervisors in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comparison to Proposition 13 is chilling for government finance officials. The 1978 ballot measure limited property tax increases and severely constricted local revenues. County leaders fear the Medicaid cuts could devastate California hospitals in the same way Proposition 13 decimated funding for the state’s public schools.[aside postID=news_12033802 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']That’s especially true for public hospitals like Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Facilities such as Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and San Mateo Medical Center make up just 6% of hospitals in the state, but they operate more than half of California’s trauma and burn centers — and provide more than a third of hospital care for Medicaid patients or those without insurance, according to the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is this: Medicaid is the most significant revenue source for our health and hospital system,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Williams’ warning, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place Measure A on the Nov. 4 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would raise the county sales tax by 0.625% for five years, bringing in an estimated $330 million annually. Supporters say that money is vital to avoid hospital closures, though it won’t make up for cuts projected to reach over $1 billion annually for Santa Clara County by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of Measure A argue that the absence of federal support should force the county to re-evaluate whether it needs to operate four hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Federal cuts reverberate statewide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across California, the Medicaid cuts are hitting struggling hospital systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near Death Valley, the last hospital providing emergency care in southern Inyo County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/09/inyo-hospital-closure-financial/\">has run out\u003c/a> of money. In Riverside, leaders of the Palo Verde Hospital recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/health/2025/10/01/palo-verde-healthcare-district-files-for-bankruptcy-notifies-state-of-blythe-hospital-closure/86467143007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z115501p117650c117650e006800v115501b0035xxd003565&gca-ft=147&gca-ds=sophi\">filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>. And in Modoc County, the CEO of California’s smallest hospital, Surprise Valley Community Hospital, said its one emergency bed \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/federal-medicaid-cuts-would-devastate-health-care-systems-californias-vast-rural-north/\">could close\u003c/a> because of the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center stands on 751 South Bascom Avenue in San José on Sept. 29, 2025. Nurses and doctors such as Emiko Rivera from Santa Clara Valley Medical Center are supporting Measure A, a sales tax to raise county revenue in the face of Medicaid cuts. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no magic way to print money to offset the federal government backing away from their promise to be a partner for those that are most fragile in our community,” said Graham Knaus, CEO of the California State Association of Counties. “It makes the whole system collapse, and that’s exactly what we’re starting to see — first in some of these rural areas, but it’s not going to be limited to those areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, formally known as H.R. 1, requires adult Medicaid recipients to prove they are working, volunteering or going to school. County workers will have to process the new eligibility checks, adding workloads that could cost counties hundreds of millions of dollars annually, according to the California State Association of Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Medicaid recipients lose eligibility, as expected, counties such as Santa Clara will receive fewer direct payments and reimbursements for services. Additionally, the federal share of emergency services for certain undocumented adults without children will drop from 90% to 50%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That too will be upwards of a $200 million-plus cost shift,” Knaus said. “And in health settings where they’re barely making it today before all this is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said many counties could backfill health care funding by cutting from other parts of their budgets. Other hospitals could limit services or close altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fight to keep hospitals open\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, officials say Measure A is the only way to keep all four public hospitals and 13 clinics open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other counties, their response to this — to close the budget gap — is to close down their hospitals, close down emergency departments,” Supervisor Betty Duong said. “This county cannot let that happen without a fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duong said cutbacks to Santa Clara Valley Healthcare could also strain private hospitals, which would suddenly face increased demand for emergency services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032773\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus in San José on March 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Measure A has been endorsed by dozens of South Bay elected officials and labor groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yes on A campaign has raised over $2 million, with the largest contribution of $300,000 coming from SEIU 521, the union representing county health care workers. The Silicon Valley Community Foundation, developer and philanthropist John Sobrato, and the Valley Physicians Group have also each contributed more than $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those donations have funded a campaign leaning into anti-Trump messaging. A recent Yes on A mailer declared, “Trump’s Cuts = Local Crisis.” Supporters hope turnout for Proposition 50, the redistricting measure also on the November ballot, boosts Democratic participation in reliably blue Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a chance for the residents of this county to say, ‘Hey, federal administration, we’re not going to take this lying down,’” Duong said.[aside postID=news_12051250 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240324_SantaClaraMedicalStrike_GC-33_qed.jpg']Opponents question whether county leaders are bailing water out of a sinking ocean liner. Over the past six years, the county purchased three private hospitals on the brink of closure — O’Connor Hospital and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001214/santa-clara-county-plans-to-buy-east-san-jose-hospital-to-reverse-cuts-to-care\">Regional Medical Center in San José\u003c/a> and St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy — to prevent a loss of emergency access that would have sent patients streaming to Valley Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those purchases significantly ballooned county payroll costs, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/14/4-charts-that-shows-how-california-counties-spent-45-billion-on-employees-last-year/\">Bay Area News Group analysis\u003c/a> found. And the expansion was predicated on federal Medicaid funding that no longer exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to decide — do we need all four hospitals?” said Cupertino Mayor Liang Chao, who opposes Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chao said a sales tax increase will fall disproportionately on lower-income residents, and as a general-purpose tax, the revenue could technically be spent for any purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are saying [Measure A] is targeted for health care, but it could be spent on anything,” Chao said. “So that’s kind of not very honest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign against Measure A has not reported any financial contributions, but several former mayors — including Lydia Kou of Palo Alto, Rishi Kumar of Saratoga and Liz Lawler of Monte Sereno — have aligned against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is like a knee-jerk reaction to something happening in the federal government,” Chao said. “It’s kind of taking advantage of the federal cut as an excuse to tax the voters, rather than really looking at how do we solve a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, nearby hospitals are already buckling. Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in San Benito is teetering after a private buyer \u003ca href=\"https://www.hazelhawkins.com/news/2025/august/insight-health-steps-away-from-lease-to-purchase/\">backed away\u003c/a> from a rescue deal, citing uncertainty in the wake of federal cuts. Williams, the Santa Clara County executive, predicts that could push more patients to Santa Clara’s hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Valley Med, a $40 million burn unit expansion is underway to expand the unit from eight beds to 14. Rivera, the nurse, said she’s worried about how the cuts will affect the unit she has worked in for the last 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of unknowns right now and uncertainty,” Rivera said. “But we will all be directly impacted in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, a pall of uncertainty has spread over the sprawling Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Donald Trump in July, enacted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\">historic cuts\u003c/a> to Medicaid, the health care program for people with low incomes and disabilities. Medicaid — known as Medi-Cal in California — is the single largest revenue source for Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, the county health system that serves patients regardless of their ability to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about burn injuries is that nobody is immune to a burn injury,” Rivera said. “It doesn’t matter if you are houseless or if you have millions of dollars. Everybody’s going to the same place, and that’s our burn center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EmikoRivera1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burn nurse Emiko Rivera treats patients at one of the region’s few certified burn centers. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, hospitals providing expensive emergency services to Medicaid patients have struggled to balance their books, especially in rural areas. But the latest federal cuts have spread the crisis to Silicon Valley, where local leaders are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051250/santa-clara-county-voters-could-pay-more-sales-tax-due-to-trump-cuts\">asking voters to provide a lifeline\u003c/a> in the form of Measure A, a sales tax increase on the ballot in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the single largest revenue loss for the county organization, and therefore the services that we’re able to provide to the community, since the passage of Proposition 13,” Santa Clara County Executive James Williams told the Board of Supervisors in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comparison to Proposition 13 is chilling for government finance officials. The 1978 ballot measure limited property tax increases and severely constricted local revenues. County leaders fear the Medicaid cuts could devastate California hospitals in the same way Proposition 13 decimated funding for the state’s public schools.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s especially true for public hospitals like Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Facilities such as Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and San Mateo Medical Center make up just 6% of hospitals in the state, but they operate more than half of California’s trauma and burn centers — and provide more than a third of hospital care for Medicaid patients or those without insurance, according to the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is this: Medicaid is the most significant revenue source for our health and hospital system,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Williams’ warning, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place Measure A on the Nov. 4 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would raise the county sales tax by 0.625% for five years, bringing in an estimated $330 million annually. Supporters say that money is vital to avoid hospital closures, though it won’t make up for cuts projected to reach over $1 billion annually for Santa Clara County by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of Measure A argue that the absence of federal support should force the county to re-evaluate whether it needs to operate four hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Federal cuts reverberate statewide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across California, the Medicaid cuts are hitting struggling hospital systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near Death Valley, the last hospital providing emergency care in southern Inyo County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/09/inyo-hospital-closure-financial/\">has run out\u003c/a> of money. In Riverside, leaders of the Palo Verde Hospital recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/health/2025/10/01/palo-verde-healthcare-district-files-for-bankruptcy-notifies-state-of-blythe-hospital-closure/86467143007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z115501p117650c117650e006800v115501b0035xxd003565&gca-ft=147&gca-ds=sophi\">filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>. And in Modoc County, the CEO of California’s smallest hospital, Surprise Valley Community Hospital, said its one emergency bed \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/federal-medicaid-cuts-would-devastate-health-care-systems-californias-vast-rural-north/\">could close\u003c/a> because of the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center stands on 751 South Bascom Avenue in San José on Sept. 29, 2025. Nurses and doctors such as Emiko Rivera from Santa Clara Valley Medical Center are supporting Measure A, a sales tax to raise county revenue in the face of Medicaid cuts. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no magic way to print money to offset the federal government backing away from their promise to be a partner for those that are most fragile in our community,” said Graham Knaus, CEO of the California State Association of Counties. “It makes the whole system collapse, and that’s exactly what we’re starting to see — first in some of these rural areas, but it’s not going to be limited to those areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, formally known as H.R. 1, requires adult Medicaid recipients to prove they are working, volunteering or going to school. County workers will have to process the new eligibility checks, adding workloads that could cost counties hundreds of millions of dollars annually, according to the California State Association of Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Medicaid recipients lose eligibility, as expected, counties such as Santa Clara will receive fewer direct payments and reimbursements for services. Additionally, the federal share of emergency services for certain undocumented adults without children will drop from 90% to 50%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That too will be upwards of a $200 million-plus cost shift,” Knaus said. “And in health settings where they’re barely making it today before all this is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said many counties could backfill health care funding by cutting from other parts of their budgets. 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The Silicon Valley Community Foundation, developer and philanthropist John Sobrato, and the Valley Physicians Group have also each contributed more than $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those donations have funded a campaign leaning into anti-Trump messaging. A recent Yes on A mailer declared, “Trump’s Cuts = Local Crisis.” Supporters hope turnout for Proposition 50, the redistricting measure also on the November ballot, boosts Democratic participation in reliably blue Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a chance for the residents of this county to say, ‘Hey, federal administration, we’re not going to take this lying down,’” Duong said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Santa Clara County grand jury has indicted a group of pro-Palestinian Stanford University students on felony vandalism and trespassing charges, stemming from a June 2024 incident in which they broke into the campus president’s office and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989050/pro-palestinian-stanford-protesters-detained-after-occupying-presidents-office\">barricaded\u003c/a> themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors with the District Attorney’s office secured the indictment against 11 students on Sept. 29, pushing the case toward a trial and rankling defense attorneys who say the move shunts key elements of a thus far public prosecution into secrecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made this a very public case. They decided to charge felonies, they decided to hold a press conference, they decided to seek national media coverage of this charging decision,” Jeff Wozniak, a defense attorney in the case, told KQED on Wednesday. “And now to hold a secret non-public hearing to secure an indictment is just outrageous to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of students were previously arraigned on identical felony charges from the DA’s office in the spring, a little less than a year after their action, which marked one piece of a broader campaign pushing Stanford to divest from companies or industries supporting Israel’s military offensive of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wozniak and a group of other attorneys representing the students were seeking a preliminary hearing regarding those charges in open court, where a judge and defense attorneys can hear and question the validity of evidence from prosecutors before a case can head to a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Deputies stand guard outside Building 10 at Stanford University, where pro-Palestinian protesters broke into the university president’s office and occupied it before being arrested on June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week’s indictment, however, supersedes the prior charges, and allows the DA’s office to circumvent the preliminary hearing process. In indictment proceedings, prosecutors are the only people presenting evidence and witness testimony to a grand jury panel, which then privately deliberates to reach a decision on whether to bring charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that they’re scared to have a public hearing and to be held accountable for what they’re alleging in this case. I think they’ve overcharged it. I don’t think that these are felony cases,” Wozniak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Baker, a deputy district attorney heading up the case, disagreed with Wozniak’s characterization, and said the decision to use an indictment was for efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We presented the case to the grand jury to get the case to trial as soon as possible and conserve judicial resources,” Baker told KQED. “We feel confident that the evidence is strong and that we can prove our case to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker said trying to coordinate the schedules of 11 defendants and several defense attorneys for the preliminary hearing process would cause significant “logistical issues” and could take weeks of a courtroom’s time.[aside postID=news_12058155 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-2000x1334.jpg']In this case, the grand jury heard testimony from two Stanford employees, including Caesar Campos, a public safety lieutenant, and Mitchell Bousson, the director of facilities. One other witness, John Richardson, was not a student but took part in the action in June 2024, but has since testified for the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson pleaded no contest to both felony charges earlier this year under a deferred judgement program for young people, and if he completes a probationary period without any other legal trouble, the charges against him will be dismissed, Baker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Jeff Rosen, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035346/santa-clara-da-charges-12-pro-palestinian-protesters-took-over-stanford-university-presidents-office\">announcing\u003c/a> the initial felony charges in April, said the students crossed a line with their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dissent is American, vandalism is criminal,” Rosen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-profile case is being prosecuted as the university itself has come under investigation by the Trump administration’s Department of Education, along with dozens of other schools, for alleged antisemitic discrimination and harassment, putting pressure on the schools to quell pro-Palestinian Gaza War protests on their campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian demonstrations roiled college campuses across the country last year, and while thousands of students were arrested, many saw charges dropped or faced misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker, when asked if he has been pressured at all in the case, said “absolutely not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decisions in this case were made entirely by the district attorney’s office without any outside pressure from Stanford, the Stanford Police Department or any other federal or state agency,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007721\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240425-StanfordGazaProtest-009-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus in Stanford on April 25, 2024, calling for the university to divest from Israel. The rally took place during Stanford’s Admit Weekend, a time for incoming students to tour the university. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stanford did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 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Can you tell me a little bit more about where you went and who you met when you went out there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:43] Yeah, I went to visit a small farm called Three Feathers in Morgan Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Héktor Calderón-Victoria \u003c/strong>[00:02:49] We’re on about five acres here with the house included, and like I said, we try to utilize this space for several…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:57] I met the co-owner, Héktor Calderón-Victoria, who’s also a farmer there. He co-founded this farm with his business partner Dilip Sharma, and together they’re growing crops from their Mexican and Indian heritages for communities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Héktor Calderón-Victoria \u003c/strong>[00:03:12] This beautiful corn that we planted this year is a green Oaxacan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:03:20] Beans and squash alongside okra, garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:03:30] Hose sunflowers are really, really beautiful. 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He’s never owned a farm before until about three or four years ago, but he’s really inspired by his great grandfather, the main person in his community in Mexico, providing food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Héktor Calderón-Victoria \u003c/strong>[00:04:22] He grew corn and had silos of corn that would be provided to the community. He was also the rancher that provided milk and cheese and meat products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] And so he wants to continue that legacy of farming in his family and sort of provide for the communities he’s living with now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:43] When you say small, give me a sense of like the size of a small form, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:04:51] In regions like where Morgan Hill is in Santa Clara County, like half of all farmland are on parcels of 40 acres or less. And so that’s like the definition of a small farm. Three Feathers in itself was five acres. So we’re talking about a very small space that can grow, you know, just a limited variety of crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:11] Well, you mentioned that Héktor and his business partner are growing things from their traditional Indian and Mexican heritages. So what is typically done with the food that is grown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] So like many small farms in the Bay Area, a lot of the food is supporting under-resourced communities through food banks, schools, or food hubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Héktor Calderón-Victoria \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] Normally distribute a lot of our produce to food banks, food hubs, and also unified school districts, which is one that we do here is the Morgan Hill Unified. 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The tax and spending legislation, called the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” Act, redirects money to the military and border security and includes cuts to Medicaid, education and other domestic programs. Johnson was flanked by House Committee chairs who helped craft the legislation. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The proverbial words are, ‘Hey, let’s cut the fat first,’ right? Well, we’ve been doing that for a couple of years now. At this point, we are already cutting the meat,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are facing in front of us with H.R.1, that some call the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046831/cruel-ugly-nasty-immoral-democrats-slam-mega-bill-ahead-of-house-vote\"> big ugly bill from Congress\u003c/a>, is something that in many ways is really self-inflicted cruelty and chaos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County leaders say the additional sales tax revenue is badly needed to help support the county’s health care system, Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, which includes four hospitals and 15 clinics that collectively serve about one of every four county residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system is the main provider of healthcare services for lower-income people enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s version of the federal Medicaid insurance program, and also the largest provider of hospital services to patients with Medicare, the federal insurance program for people age 65 and older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under H.R. 1, Medicaid will see a cut of roughly $1 trillion over a decade, in large part due to eligibility changes that could force many who receive such benefits off their coverage.[aside postID=news_12051129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1244095544-1020x619.jpg']Santa Clara County CEO James Williams made his case for the sales tax measure during Thursday’s board meeting, saying the federal cuts represent an “extraordinary loss of revenue” for the county’s work in providing care to thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This strategy will help give us a little breathing room,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also a tangible and concrete way for us to say we will not just sit idly by as the federal government pulls the rug out from critical access to core services, but that we will together, and in a multifaceted effort, bring the pieces of our community in alignment to ensure that the things that make Santa Clara County special continue,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has already cut many vacant positions and implemented a hiring freeze to reduce its deficits, in part caused by the slow growth of its property tax funds. But Lee said without help from an additional sales tax measure, the federal cuts put the county in a “dire” situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re talking about is not just cutting to the bone or bone marrow. 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