Safe & Healthy Contra Costa

93,000 Contra Costa Residents could lose healthcare due to cuts in Federal Healthcare funding by the Trump Administration. This is more than $1 billion to Contra Costa Health over the next five years, impacting every part of our health system.

Measure B won't increase the cost of groceries. It could save your life.

If Measure B fails, emergency response times will increase. Since brain damage can occur after just three minutes without oxygen, stroke and heart attack victims could be at risk. Wait times for all patients receiving critical care will increase at every hospital in the County.

If we don’t act, lives will be lost.

The federal government is cutting billions from healthcare. In Contra Costa County, these cuts will impact everyone. Up to 90,000 people will lose health insurance, and according to the county health director, our health system will lose more than $1.5 billion over the next five years.

Measure B will keep the Contra Costa County Medical Center open and functioning. It will also allow the county to maintain crucial physical and mental health care that keeps people out of emergency rooms. This will save lives and, in the long run, save taxpayers money.

It will ensure the public hospital and clinic operations remain open.

Limit impacts on other hospitals in the region

Help keep SNAP (food stamp) benefits

Keep emergency response times from being impacted

Measure B is a temporary tax; the Board of Supervisors cannot renew it, and it will be in effect for only 5 years. It exempts food, housing, and medical care, so most of the money from this tax will come from corporate or large luxury purchases. It will not raise your grocery bill, your rent, or the cost of your prescriptions.

Join us in support of Measure B. The lives that are saved might be yours or your loved ones'.