On Jan. 1, California will become the first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented adults by expanding access to the state-run insurance plan, Medi-Cal.

About 700,000 adults between ages 26 and 49 will be eligible as of Jan. 1

California will welcome the new year by becoming the first state to offer health insurance for all undocumented immigrants.

Starting Jan. 1, all undocumented immigrants, regardless of age, will qualify for Medi-Cal, California’s version of the federal Medicaid program for people with low incomes.

Previously, undocumented immigrants were not qualified to receive comprehensive health insurance but were allowed to receive emergency and pregnancy-related services under Medi-Cal as long as they met eligibility requirements, including income limits and California residency in 2014.

  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
    53·
    10 months ago

    Didn’t California recently also pass a Public Option for healthcare, aiming for full coverage of Californians in general?

    Great steps in the right direction.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      No, CA does not have a public option… unless you consider things like Medicaid.

      That said, many are pushing for single payer, and in October Newsom signed a bill that tries to resurrect the push for single payer.

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        and in October Newsom signed a bill that tries to resurrect the push for single payer.

        I think this is the one I was thinking of. Thanks for the clarification, Tad Ghostal.

    • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Must be very recent because I was without insurance due to cost back when I lived in california just a few months ago. Moved to china for obvious reasons

            • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              Decimated Hong Kong

              Dude people in Hong Kong used to be living in closets. It was awful. Now that mainland china has had some influence it’s greatly improved

              Uyghur muslims

              Are we still on about this when it’s been long disproven?

              Constant lies

              Funny to hear that coming from a capitalist apologist

              Theft of intellectual property

              Literally citing a legal fiction as if it’s some sort of atrocity that everyone would agree on.

              Suicide nets

              I almost killed myself in America and those thoughts went away when I moved to China. Turns out when your life isn’t shit you don’t want to kill yourself

              Safety issues

              Remember that time a train derailed in Ohio? Oh right, y’all’s “free press” was too focused on the Chinese spy balloon hoax to give any airtime to it

              China under the CCP is dog shit

              Yeah, lemme know what you think when you get opinions from sources that aren’t funded directly by congress’s anti-china propaganda fund that y’all openly create

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                    3·
                    10 months ago

                    This is like saying “hope you’re not a Jew” if you live in Nazi Germany and you telling me that you’re a blacksmith so you’re fine in Nazi Germany.

                    Believe it or not, being a blacksmith has nothing to do with being a Jew and being queer has nothing to do with being Tibetan.

                • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  Oh btw, just found this news on Xinjiang’s “forced labor”. It always goes the same:

                  1. Baseless accusations against china treated as fact
                  2. Hire a few people to claim to be victims
                  3. Accusations fail to hold up against scrutiny
                  4. The news quietly moves on to another propaganda strategy. An admission that it’s false is “published” but buried by the algorithm so that they can claim journalistic integrity when pressed

                  Because the admission that they’re wrong is always buried, people who still believe the lie are plentiful as fuck and finding the confession is a pain in the ass.

                  I personally know an Uyghur guy who can’t get a job at any international companies because the international companies are afraid of the forced labor allegations

    • quindraco@lemm.ee
      2·
      10 months ago

      I mean, this amounts to that, since by definition, an undocumented immigrant has no documentation. So anyone in California now has access (assuming they didn’t already, I don’t know) to the state insurance plan by claiming to be an undocumented immigrant when they go to the doctor.

    • shadowspirit@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      Great step for what? Mental healthcare in the state is horrible. Can’t care for its own citizens but here we are.

      Speaking with some authority here as I am guardian of a mentally ill family member. California vs Texas both are equally shitty when it comes to dealing with crazy. Housing is part of the major problem and no one dare fucking tackle that.

      Fuck Newsome soundbite cowboy ways.