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.
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.
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.
I think this is the one I was thinking of. Thanks for the clarification, Tad Ghostal.
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
Hope you aren’t a Uighur or a Tibetan.
Nah, but I’m visibly queer. And it hasn’t been a problem
So you think ‘Uighur’ and ‘Tibetan’ are secret Lemmy code words for non-CisHet?
No, I just think that you think that anybody who isn’t cishet han in China has it just as bad as anybody who isn’t cishet white in America
When did I even imply that? What on Earth does being queer have to do with what I said?
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.
Oh btw, just found this news on Xinjiang’s “forced labor”. It always goes the same:
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
I’m so sorry for your poor choices.
Oh yeah, living in America for any longer than I had to was probably the worst choice I ever made
Because you like living under authoritarian regimes?
Do you just repeat CIA propaganda without giving it any second thought? It’s actually a nice place to live.
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.
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.