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“The findings in this brief weren’t necessarily surprising, but they are pretty stark,” said Susan Babey of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, which helped create the report, during a virtual press conference April 29.
In addition to the current law, all immigrants without papers who meet the financial criteria can obtain a limited coverage of Medi-Cal, which includes emergency and embarrassment services and, in some cases, long-term attention. “It’s a key moment, when fours are incorporating all these undocumented immigrants who have advanced to the medical attention system,” said Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor of politics and health management at the School of Public Health at Fielding. If you have extended your chronic, dice attachments, they will simply end up in the emergency room and will be more
Children who experience food insecurity are more likely to be in overall poor health, said Babey. "They have an increased risk for depression and anxiety, and food insecurity is also associated with lower academic achievement."
“Denying a segment of our population access to vaccines because of paperwork” won’t end the pandemic any sooner, Ponce said.
Despite state policy that says immigration status does not affect vaccine eligibility, the county requires a photo ID and proof of age to receive a vaccine at its clinics, according to its policies published on the county’s website. Ninez Ponce, a professor at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, said the county’s photo ID policy, and the chilling effect it could have on vaccination rates among undocumented. “Denying a segment of our population access to vaccines because of paperwork” won’t end the pandemic any sooner, Ponce said. People should be concerning for everyone in the community.
A just-published report by Nourish California and CIPC, which used statewide survey data collected from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research from 2017 to 2020, found that 45% of undocumented immigrants in California are affected by food insecurity. Among children under 18, the rate is even higher, at 64% — meaning that nearly two out of every three undocumented children are food insecure.
This week, Newsom’s Healthy California for All Commission delivered its report, endorsing — in concept — “unified financing” that would pay for universal health care coverage, but stopping well short of a specific proposal.
The Biden administration has set its sights on fixing the "family glitch", a move that will have far reaching ramifications .. and result in the largest expansion of ACA coverage since the law was passed more than a decade ago. "This fix to the ACA to eliminate what's been known as the family glitch is a very big deal," Gerald Kominski, Ph.D., a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and professor of public health, told Health. "Last year, the Kaiser Family Foundation published a study estimating that 5.14 million people are currently affected by the family glitch...This
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Last January, Newsom revealed another proposal, to include another 700,000 undocumented people, between the ages of 26 and 49, in Medi-Cal coverage, starting in 2024. The initiative must be approved in this year's final budget. Children and young adults are already eligible. Still, researchers from the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research noted that once Medi-Cal is expanded to migrants over 50, some 3.2 million people will remain uninsured in California, of whom 1.16 Millions will be undocumented, because they earn more than the marked annual income limit.