April 9, 2020

Undocumented Seniors Are Vulnerable During The Pandemic. Will California’s Budget Give Them Health Care?

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Undocumented Californians and their supporters were hoping 2020 would be the year that state-subsidized health care became available to all seniors. But in the COVID-19 economy, their fate hangs in the balance.

Roughly 27,000 low-income seniors in California are not eligible for Medi-Cal, the state’s low-income health insurance program, due to their immigration status.

On Thursday, the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California and other groups put out a social media call asking people to email their legislators about Medi-Cal for all seniors.

The push to cover undocumented people over age 65 has been a focus of the universal health care movement for several years. Undocumented children in California have been eligible for Medi-Cal since 2016.

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