California will become the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally.
California will become the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.
"This will represent the biggest expansion of coverage in the nation since the start of the Affordable Care Act in 2014," said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a statewide consumer health care advocacy group."In California we recognize everybody benefits when everyone is covered."
"I think many of us are very sympathetic to the immigrant community, but we really wish we had better control of who enters this nation and this state," Coupal said. Hernandez turned 26 in February. She hasn't lost her coverage yet because of emergency federal rules during the pandemic. But those rules could expire later this year, making her one of the estimated 40,000 people who will temporarily lose their coverage before California's new program starts on Jan. 1, 2024, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.
"It's great that California is taking that step to set that example for other states," said Hernandez, who said she does not have a work permit or other permission to live in the United States."I do believe that we can do better by making sure that people like myself and hundreds of others, thousands of others, do not fall out of their health care simply because they turn 26.
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