Medical providers and patients this week told the D.C. Council health committee that as a result of cuts to the city’s safety net health care programs, low-income residents cannot afford care, their conditions are worsening and some will die.

Advocates are also pushing city officials to reverse changes that this fall cut about 2,200 people from an insurance program called Health Care Alliance Program that covers 30,000 residents who have no other options, regardless of their immigration status. And starting next year, changes to the city’s Medicaid program could leave thousands more uninsured.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s budget this summer slashed Alliance and Medicaid programs to help plug a $1 billion shortfall that city officials attributed to President Donald Trump’s federal workforce c

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