House Republicans want to gut Medicaid. In California, that could cost them their seats

House Republicans passed a budget plan last week that could slash up to $880 billion over 10 years from Medicaid, a program that provides health insurance to 83 million low-income Americans. For the past several months, healthcare advocates have been ramping up pressure on three vulnerable California Republicans in Congress—Representatives Ken Calvert, Young Kim, and David Valadao—urging them to break ranks and reject those cuts when the final budget comes up for a vote in the coming months.