Gavin Newsom

for the thousands of people who lost their homes and whose lives were devastated from this disaster.

Not a word from the President of the United States.

One of the things that's unfortunate about what's happening across this country is while they're asserting one thing in terms of making America healthy again, they're doing something radical on the other side of that.

The most significant cutbacks, the most consequential rollbacks of health care coverage in American history with premiums that are about to double, 97% on average for Californians.

We expect 600,000 Californians to lose their health coverage

in January, 600,000 that can no longer afford health coverage if the Big Beautiful Bill and its impacts on Obamacare and the elimination of these subsidies go away.

And so you can't do one without the other.

And I think what makes me most proud of what the assembly members are doing and what our secretary has done is that we have a comprehensive strategy to health care.

And that, by the way, includes the environment, which is a huge part of the air we breathe, the water we drink.

So it's just not good enough.

to make a case against ultra-processed foods unless you're making a case for healthcare delivery system and preventative care and making a case for integrating these values and these principles.

So I think California is a model.

We're hardly perfect.

No one's naive.

There are tremendous challenges, but this is a big part of our effort.

And final point on this before we open up to questions.

We opened shortly after we became the first state in the U.S.

to provide universal health care, regardless of pre-existing conditions, ability to pay, and your status.

We also opened an office of health care affordability.

It's not gotten the kind of attention I think it deserves.