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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 un... read more

California votes to expand Medicaid to illegal aliens

(That’s the California version, known as Medi-Cal, as opposed to federal Medicaid ... No federal funding to cover undocumented immigrants, except for payment for limited emergency services The “qualif... 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, wh... read more

California Could Become The First State To Extend Health Coverage To Undocumented Young Adults

California could soon become the first state in the nation to extend health coverage to undocumented young adults ages 19 ... Low-income undocumented young adults are solely eligible for emergency-onl... 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 u... read more

Universal Health Care: Lessons From San Francisco

Before the ACA, this included low-income childless adults, undocumented immigrants, and workers not offered employer-sponsored ... San Franciscans gained Medi-Cal and subsidized private coverage under ... read more

Progressives Move On To Universal Health Insurance In California

As originally written, the package would have expanded Medi-Cal to all income-eligible under-26 young adults ... undocumented immigrants to the state's publicly-funded health care. For many, doing thi... read more

Sonoma County expands health coverage for undocumented children

When you follow a story, the next time a ... form of Medi-Cal, California’s version of the federal Medicaid program. These children are currently limited to emergency medical services. As many as 3,30... 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" healthca... read more

Contra Costa to again offer health coverage to undocumented

With the federal Affordable Care Act and the expansion of Medi-Cal reducing the ranks of the uninsured, undocumented adults remain one of the ... I will have no problem voting 'no' next time if the mo... read more

Multi-Status Families Brace For Health Care Reform

Your browser does not support ... or expanded Medi-Cal services until they’ve been here five years. Then there are the undocumented immigrants who now have insurance through their employers — about 40 ... read more

Thomas D. Elias: How far should California go toward universal health care?

As originally written, the package would have expanded Medi-Cal to all income-eligible young adults ... of undocumented immigrants to the state’s publicly-funded health care. For many, doing this rais... read more