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Now is not the time to expand Medi-Cal to undocumented adults

Advocates of a single-payer healthcare system in California have struggled to come up with a realistic and feasible way to pay for it, so this year they're pushing for more incremental steps toward universal health insurance coverage. The most far-reaching ... read more

Medi-Cal set to expand coverage to undocumented children

With county health departments and now Covered California ... pay for imaging and consultations not covered by restricted Medi-Cal, the bare-bones plan that is often the only option for California’s undocumented adults. About a quarter of the 3.8 million ... read more

Q&A: Efforts To Extend Health Coverage To Undocumented Immigrants

I did not want to put the ... Why would the effort to cover undocumented adults be successful this time around? In order for us to manage the cost, we selected the most vulnerable out of the group, which were the children. So now we move forward with ... read more

Viewpoints: After Corporations, Wealthy People Get A Boost, Brutality Takes Over Policies; Where’s The Research On Women’s Heart Disease?

(Benjamin Fong, 5/15) Los Angeles Times: Now Is Not The Time To Expand Medi-Cal To Undocumented Adults Advocates of a single-payer healthcare system in California have struggled to come up with a realistic and feasible way to pay for it, so this year they ... read more

The Health-Care Campaign To Cover California's Remaining Uninsured

Care4All's advocates claim their solution -- which they are pushing not as a long-term ... Using state tax dollars would expand the program that covers undocumented children to include undocumented adults within the Medi-Cal program. Since almost one ... read more

Medicaid Recipients Are Not Invisible

for the first time in our history, health care is now a right and not ... these new Medi-Cal recipients are insured for the first time. That's because the Affordable Care Act allowed states to expand their Medicaid programs to cover single adults and ... read more

Two doctors with opposing views on expanding Medi-Cal to immigrants here illegally

Far more complicated is determining how to pay for it. The analysis in your stellar editorial, "Now Is Not the Time to Expand Medi-Cal to Undocumented Adults," points out that offering "free" healthcare to adults present in our country illegally will cost ... read more

Rural, urban, with or without papers, expanding this program would bring #Health4All

Health4All Adults is two parallel legislative proposals (SB 974 and AB 2965) that would remove an eligibility barrier to comprehensive Medi-Cal for over 1 million low-income undocumented adults. This would expand ... and soul. Now is the time to deepen ... read more