Posted on 06/27/2022 1:47:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
California will become the first state to remove immigration status as a barrier to health care, making all low-income undocumented residents eligible for state-subsidized insurance regardless of age.
Gov. Gavin Newsom late Sunday announced a budget deal he struck with the Legislature included a new Medi-Cal expansion that would cover more undocumented adults.
The program’s launch, starting no later than Jan. 1, 2024, is expected to provide full coverage for approximately 700,000 undocumented residents ages 26-49 and lead to the largest drop in the rate of uninsured Californians in a decade.
“This historic investment speaks to California’s commitment to healthcare as a human right,” said Sen. María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles.
The state already allows many undocumented residents to join Medi-Cal. In 2015, California began allowing undocumented children to join Medi-Cal. Four years later, eligibility broadened to those younger than 26. And in May, the state started covering people aged 50 and over.
The MediCal expansion is expected to cost $2.6 billion annually.
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Good on you California!
Show us how it’s done.
It worked so well for Romneycare
LOL!
Good luck paying for that, LOL.
Any sane person that hasn’t left that state yet, needs to get out immediately.
The program’s launch, starting no later than Jan. 1, 2024, is expected to provide full coverage for approximately 700,000 undocumented residents ages 26-49 and lead to the largest drop in the rate of uninsured Californians in a decade.
Not an investment but an expense. I don’t know why Democrats can’t keep those two things straight.
Sticking it to the taxpayers again.
Well ok CA is lost so let it be the baby killer/ illegal health and education magnet.
Good. I hope CA brings in all the illegals everywhere in the US. Then build a fence.
Plenty of political kick-backs to go around...
...well, if you're a 'rat.
The rest of the US will be paying for it to through fed $ going into CA.
$ is fungible. What they blow on BS, they can ask for more from uncle sam.
I’m sure the overworked underpaid nurses will love this.
Anybody in the third world would have be nuts not to move to California.
It’s not like it’s tough to get in, or anything like that.
In @1995 my cousin in California got breast cancer...she was having trouble getting care, competing with illegals THEN. I feel sorry for my conservative family still in Cali...
Why not don’t Mexicans drive across the border for everything else
Every R state should offer illegals a $1000 balance credit card and a one-way plane ticket to California. Who wouldn’t want to lose the added expenses of medicine PLUS schooling, food, housing, child care, and other assistance programs?
MediCal is the California version of Medicare and it is federal dollars along with state. Federal $ makes up between 62 and 100 percent of the funds spent, so their generosity is your generosity.
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