Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Devastate Health Care Systems in California’s Vast Rural North - California Health Care Foundation

Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Devastate Health Care Systems in California’s Vast Rural North - California Health Care Foundation

Jo Campbell, the CEO of Hill Country Community Clinic in Round Mountain, California, faces difficult decisions if Medi-Cal spending cuts reduce the clinic system’s revenues. Round Mountain is a 35-mile drive up a winding road from Redding and has only 160 residents. “The majority of my patients are at or below poverty level,” she says. Photo: Mike Chapman  It happens to lots of people during their working lives: Your body just can’t do it anymor…