"On Thursday afternoon in East Oakland, dozens of people lay side by side under the beating sun. Above their heads stood cardboard gravestones, some reading, “No suicide hotline,” “Died unhoused,” “Can’t afford insurance,” and “Rural hospital closed.”
Many of the people were hospital and ER staff and recipients of Medicare or Medi-Cal.
More than 100 of these East Bay residents staged a “die-in,” protesting President Donald Trump’s cuts to healthcare funding outside Oakland’s Eastmont Town Center."
