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California becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10115454

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried to find more info and does seem convoluted. Are you being kicked off from the pandemic coverage?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/medi-cal-medicaid-2024-18497420.php

[–] j4k3 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No it was hidden in the change from Monarch to Optum. Everyone got letters in mid November that said their PCP had changed November 1st. It ISA total mess. No one knows what is going on really, but everyone with 100% state care has been reassigned to clinics as their PCP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you get a new doctor every time? Damn, that's fucked up.

[–] j4k3 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I was at the doctor a week and a half ago and lucky enough to have my family foot the bill. An old man on oxygen was there the whole time I was arguing with the receptionist/nurse that the insurance company was trying to kill him. By the time he left he was talking seriously suicidal.

Like my PCP is listed as a weird code now, and no one knows what it means. I've gotten two letters with two different places listed as my PCP. Technically, I am being actively treated and should have been exempt from the changes, but no one can tell me anything. I don't need to see a PCP for a couple of months so I figure I'll give it time to sort itself out. They weren't supposed to change anything until January 1st, but like if I was in a more critical state of health than chronic back problems, they are incompetent beyond belief right now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I hope it's just the transitioning process that's messed up and not a permanent one.