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Medi-Cal changes looming for undocumented immigrants, Dientes warns
Lookout Santa Cruz ^ | November 6, 2025 | BY ASHLEY PALMA-JIMENEZ

Posted on 11/06/2025 7:42:03 AM PST by artichokegrower

The oral health program of Santa Cruz County’s public health division is collaborating with Dientes Community Dental to publicize upcoming changes to dental benefits that will affect undocumented immigrants.

Beginning Jan. 1, there will be an enrollment freeze, and adults will not be able to apply for full, non-emergency Medi-Cal benefits without proper immigration documentation.

(Excerpt) Read more at lookout.co ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; california; healthcare; illegalaliens; illegals; invaders; medical
Went to the dentist for a crown replacement. Charged me $2,900. My dental insurance covered $700. My compassion for the illegals is limited
1 posted on 11/06/2025 7:42:03 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

That can’t be right, they don’t get any benefits . . .


2 posted on 11/06/2025 7:43:12 AM PST by MCSETots (Le )
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To: artichokegrower
My compassion for the illegals is limited

Mine is zero.

3 posted on 11/06/2025 7:47:50 AM PST by PGR88
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To: MCSETots

“No Name Given” just walks in from the street and gets whatever they done but you have to pay or get thrown out ,LOL


4 posted on 11/06/2025 7:51:44 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: MCSETots

So says the Interweb. I mean, snopes can’t be wrong or misleading.


5 posted on 11/06/2025 7:52:02 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: artichokegrower

No more federal tax dollars to illegals! If Californians want to support them fine, but I doubt it. A public referendum in the ‘90s turned them down, but it was reversed by a ... federal district court judge.


6 posted on 11/06/2025 8:04:57 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: artichokegrower
Got it. My bill yesterday for dental work was $850, I have insurance that covered the other 1/2. No sympathy from me. California spends ≈ $12b on medical care for illegals (I suspect it's a lot more).

Yet the media and government keep telling us that illegals cannot access Medicare. LIES!!

President Trump Launches Explosive New Website to EXPOSE Illegal Immigrants Receiving Medicaid Benefits at Taxpayers’ Expense

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/president-trump-launches-explosive-new-website-expose-illegal/

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7 posted on 11/06/2025 8:06:54 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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““No Name Given””

On a recent TV show about police on the job - a guy arrested and put in the back of the squad car is asked for his name and he replied, “I don’t have a name” and the cop said, “I don’t have a name, you’re going to jail” and shut the door!


8 posted on 11/06/2025 8:06:59 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: MCSETots

“”Medi-Cal””

California’s Medicaid....someone in Sacramento must have gotten a clue - what happened?

Don’t know what Medicaid is called in other states.


9 posted on 11/06/2025 8:13:40 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: artichokegrower

Similar story here. In the last couple of years I’ve spent several thousand dollars on dental work, of which insurance has covered about $1200. Pretty poor return on the thousands I’ve paid in premiums over the last five years. Maybe I’ll drop the insurance and just claim to be an illegal alien.


10 posted on 11/06/2025 8:20:49 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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i would give them any humanitarian emergency care required to restore them to a safe, stable status. Then tell them to pack up and return to their own countries.
And.. I would hope that WashDC will get the f out of the health care racket. If government is to involve itself in primary health care, it is a state or local matter. Not a proper federal function (aside from military, etc.)


11 posted on 11/06/2025 8:27:14 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: PGR88

Same for me.


12 posted on 11/06/2025 9:45:36 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: faithhopecharity
i would give them any humanitarian emergency care required to restore them to a safe, stable status.

Nope. That's the beginning of the slippery slope that got us where we are today. You want to know what emergency rooms are full? It begins there.

13 posted on 11/06/2025 10:06:43 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: artichokegrower

I need a root & crown to cover it.
Insurance covers the root, but not the crown.
The crown is $2300.


14 posted on 11/06/2025 10:55:42 AM PST by Bikkuri
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To: PGR88

I think I need new batteries for my empathy meter. It’s not budging off zero.


15 posted on 11/06/2025 11:01:05 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! I’m )
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To: Night Hides Not

ILLEGAL?

GET

OUT!

GET OUT!!!

Deport every ILLEGAL invader...even if they have a toothache.


16 posted on 11/06/2025 1:21:12 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: artichokegrower

MINE IS NON-EXISTENT


17 posted on 11/06/2025 3:07:45 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: MCSETots

EVERY CHANNEL KEEPS SAYING “42 MILLION AMERICANS ON SNAP”

OVER 55-58% ARE ILLEGALS....

THAT MEANS 18 MILLION AMERICANS & 24 MILLION ILLEGALS ON SNAP


18 posted on 11/06/2025 3:09:34 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Tell It Right

NORTHRIDGE, CALIF USED TO HAVE THE BEST TRAUMA DEPT IN THE COUNTRY.

LIVED 3 BLOCKS AWAY.

SO MANY GANG BANGERS GOT TREATED FOR KNIFE/GUNSHOT WOUNDS WITHOUT PAY THAT IT GOT COMPLETELY CLOSED DOWN.

FROM NATION’S BEST-—TO CLOSED.


19 posted on 11/06/2025 3:41:23 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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