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.

  • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    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