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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10115454

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.

    • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Don’t be so quick. They downgraded everyone too. No one on state aid has a real doctor any more. Everyone only has a walk in clinic as a PCP. A disabled person like myself has no one to manage my health now.

        • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          No it was hidden in the change from Monarch to Optum. Everyone got letters in mid November that said their PCP had changed November 1st. It ISA total mess. No one knows what is going on really, but everyone with 100% state care has been reassigned to clinics as their PCP.

            • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              6 months ago

              Yeah. I was at the doctor a week and a half ago and lucky enough to have my family foot the bill. An old man on oxygen was there the whole time I was arguing with the receptionist/nurse that the insurance company was trying to kill him. By the time he left he was talking seriously suicidal.

              Like my PCP is listed as a weird code now, and no one knows what it means. I’ve gotten two letters with two different places listed as my PCP. Technically, I am being actively treated and should have been exempt from the changes, but no one can tell me anything. I don’t need to see a PCP for a couple of months so I figure I’ll give it time to sort itself out. They weren’t supposed to change anything until January 1st, but like if I was in a more critical state of health than chronic back problems, they are incompetent beyond belief right now.