On Jan. 1, California will become the first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented adults by expanding access to the state-run insurance plan, Medi-Cal.

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.

    • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      Oh btw, just found this news on Xinjiang’s “forced labor”. It always goes the same:

      1. Baseless accusations against china treated as fact
      2. Hire a few people to claim to be victims
      3. Accusations fail to hold up against scrutiny
      4. The news quietly moves on to another propaganda strategy. An admission that it’s false is “published” but buried by the algorithm so that they can claim journalistic integrity when pressed

      Because the admission that they’re wrong is always buried, people who still believe the lie are plentiful as fuck and finding the confession is a pain in the ass.

      I personally know an Uyghur guy who can’t get a job at any international companies because the international companies are afraid of the forced labor allegations

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        This is like saying “hope you’re not a Jew” if you live in Nazi Germany and you telling me that you’re a blacksmith so you’re fine in Nazi Germany.

        Believe it or not, being a blacksmith has nothing to do with being a Jew and being queer has nothing to do with being Tibetan.

        • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          12·
          11 months ago

          Lmao so stupid. You believe there’s a “genocide” because you saw a news article once. What was it’s source? Another news article. Keep following to try to find the original source and the whole thing loops back on itself like a fucking Mobius strip. Any actual evidence? The birth rate is declining, just like it is everywhere else in the world because birth rate is inversely correlated with prosperity. Also some out of context footage with mistranslated subtitles.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            Please quote me using the word genocide or explain why you want me to give a source for something I didn’t say.

            Or is this another irrelevancy to avoid addressing what I actually said like the whole queer thing?

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                    2·
                    11 months ago

                    Not a single reply you have made to me has made a lick of sense. Including that one.

                    But you sure do seem agitated that I said I hoped you weren’t a Uighur or a Tibetan considering how far you’ve gone to avoid even mentioning either of those two words as if they had never been written.