California Medicaid Payment Deferral Announcement

Because I'll make this announcement today on behalf of, um, Secretary Kennedy,

Health and Human Services, that we are going to defer one point two

billion more dollars from California today.

They just got the note, and we're doing that because the growth of

personal

care services in California, just that one little area,

where you're paying someone

to carry groceries upstairs for your mom, which many of you would carry groceries

upstairs for your mom for free, I would think.

But in California, they'll pay you a lot of money for it,

and it's actually run by

the counties. But California has been growing

that program

twenty-four percent in the last three years.

That is twice the rate of every other state average in the country.

Impossible for us to understand how that could be so.

Uh, so we're taking major action in

California.

Again, one point two billion dollars deferred,

uh, in their Medicaid payments,

uh, di-directed to personal care services.