Sign up now: Medi-Cal expanding to cover immigrant children

Sacramento Bee ^ | April 4, 2016 | Emily Bazar

[artichokegrower]

In a few months, California will begin providing full Medi-Cal coverage to all low-income children – regardless of their immigration status.

Depending on whom you ask, 170,000 to 250,000 children who live in California and are in the country illegally will qualify.

If you think your child will, or know a parent whose child will, state officials and health care advocates have a simple message for you: Take action now.

[jazminerose]

Not only quit your job—in CA to get Medi Cal, you have to spend down your assets. They won’t let you have anything, no cash on hand, nothing.

The limits are pretty harsh. They really do want you to be a ward of the state.

Then you have to find a doctor willing to accept Medi Cal as payment. Good luck with that. But hey, there’s always the emergency room open for business as your primary care doctor.