{"id":48064,"date":"2025-10-17T11:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truecare.org\/?p=48064"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:20:44","slug":"collaboration-in-action-congressman-levin-and-senator-schiff-visit-truecare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truecare.org\/blog\/collaboration-in-action-congressman-levin-and-senator-schiff-visit-truecare\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration in Action: Congressman Levin and Senator Schiff Visit TrueCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TrueCare hosted a press conference at the Mission Mesa Health Campus with President &#038; CEO Michelle D. Gonzalez, U.S Senator Adam Schiff, and Congressman Mike Levin<\/strong> to underscore the critical importance of Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits in maintaining the affordability and stability of health care coverage across California. Michelle joined Senator Schiff and Congressman Levin to describe the devastating effects of these tax credits\u2019 expiration, which has become a central issue in the ongoing federal government shutdown. Without congressional action to extend these critical tax credits, millions of Americans could face substantial premium increases, and hundreds of thousands of Californians could lose their health coverage. <\/p>\n<p>As a Federally-Qualified Health Center governed by state and federal law, participation in the political process is a necessity for TrueCare to advocate for policies that provide whole-person care and access for the marginalized patients we serve. Through TrueCare\u2019s mobilization around voter registration, legislative advocacy, and collaborations with elected officials by engaging the public in healthcare conversations such as in this press conference, our organizational mission of catalyzing for healthy and supported communities moves closer to reality. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare policy in California and across the United States, TrueCare\u2019s Advocacy &#038; Government Affairs team gladly serves as a translator of these developments to patients, staff, and TrueCare supporters and empowers them to exercise their right to participate in and shape public policy. <\/p>\n<h2>To schedule an appointment:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truecare.org\/schedule-an-appointment\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14266\" src=\"https:\/\/truecare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/truecare-schedule-appt-svg-buttons-blog-304x54-1.svg\" alt=\"TrueCare schedule an appointment button\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TrueCare hosted a press conference at the Mission Mesa Health Campus with President &#038; CEO Michelle D. 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