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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] moonwalker@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago
[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

What's insane about it? Undocumented immigrants deserve healthcare too, and we should all expect public healthcare in a general sense.

[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

He's one of those "people are more human if they come from my country" folks.

Probably thinks people are more human if they share his skin color, too.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

One looks through their comment history says otherwise. It just easier to demonize someone you don't agree with.

Also I agree with them. Just saying its ass backwards that an illegal immigrant has better healthcare than an actually citizen doesn't automatically mean illegal immigrants should have no healthcare

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not better. Now they simply qualify for the same program every other California resident can have.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Dude confused "amazing" with "insane."

This is just good cost saving. Everyone has healthcare in the US. It's called the emergency room. It costs 100x what healtchare should and has terrible outcomes compared to early preventive treatment, and is a terrible experience for the patient to boot.

Getting any group of people on preventive care is just smart in general, regardless of who they are.

[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

What's insane is how California can provide medical care to illegal immigrants but red states can't even provide it for their citizens.

Kind of put things into perspective where's the better place to live. That's why California is so expensive while places like Oklahoma are not.

Supply and demand, lol.

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