State senate bill seeks health coverage for undocumented workers
Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Long Beach) will unveil today a bill that would allow poor undocumented immigrants to sign up for Medi-Cal or qualify for state subsidies if their incomes are higher than Medi-Cal allows, according to a report by KPCC. Nadereh Pourat, research director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, told KPCC that research shows that undocumented immigrants who have private coverage tend to use it less frequently, in general, than the documented population. Unknown is how much the proposed coverage would cost the state.
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