Medi-Cal rolls could swell under Obama's deportation relief plan

APACHERAT · Mar 26, 2015

Medi-Cal rolls could swell under Obama's deportation relief plan

Thank's again Obama. Now I have to go out and purchase a smaller wallet because I will have less money because I will be paying for the healthcare of another country's citizens.

President Obama's executive actions on immigration, which have sparked a fierce political backlash nationwide, could also provide an unlikely boost for another of his goals: increasing health insurance signups.

Immigrants living in the U.S. without permission can't enroll in Obamacare, but an unusual policy in California allows those granted temporary relief from deportation to sign up for Medi-Cal. That means up to half a million more Californians could apply for the state's low-income health program, according to data released Wednesday by UC Berkeley and UCLA.

"It's huge for reducing the ranks of the uninsured," said Sonya Schwartz, a research fellow at Georgetown University Health Policy Institute's Center for Children and Families. Because California is the biggest state by population and a leader in the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, insuring hundreds of thousands of additional people "has implications for the whole country too," she said.

Although immigrant and health advocates support insuring this largely poor population, others worry that the state medical program will be unable to keep up with demand.

Medi-Cal has ballooned in recent years and now covers more than 12 million people, almost a third of the state's residents. That has raised concern about the state's ability to keep paying for the program which costs the state $18 billion a year while maintaining enough doctors to care for millions of newly insured patients.

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"There's just a lot of work that's still left," said state Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina), who wants to make sure that existing Medi-Cal enrollees can quickly and conveniently access care. Hernandez, the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, supports expanding coverage to more Californians.

Betty Jaspeado, who lives in Los Angeles, plans to apply for deportation relief and enroll in the healthcare program. She entered the country from Mexico nearly 25 years ago and qualifies for temporary immunity under Obama's recent orders. She wants the peace of mind that she won't be taken away from her three children.

"Every time you leave home, you don't know if you're going to come back," she said.

edit: (You never know if you will be run over by a taco truck or gunned down by one of the illegal alien gang bangers.)

Obama's November executive action protects people who have lived in the country for at least five years and are parents of children who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. The president also expanded his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offers deportation relief to youth who entered the country illegally.

However, dozens of states sued to stop these new programs, and a federal judge in Texas ordered a temporary halt.

If that injunction is lifted, Jaspeado would be among an estimated 1.25 million immigrants who would now qualify for some kind of relief in California. Of that total, 66% would be eligible for Medi-Cal based on their income, according to a policy brief from the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Jaspeado, 48, works as a housekeeper. She has diabetes, is uninsured and wants an easier way to access care. "I really need it," she said.

edit: (It's free stuff, free healthcare paid for by stupid American tax payers.)

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tkolter · Mar 26, 2015

The system there is bursting at the seams from citizens on Medicaid, and getting care adding more people would not give easy access to care. This seems to not be clear to some people.

APACHERAT · Mar 26, 2015

tkolter said: ↑

The system there is bursting at the seams from citizens on Medicaid, and getting care adding more people would not give easy access to care. This seems to not be clear to some people.
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Well you have California's Governor Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) meeting with Mexico's President and other Central American leaders telling them the California welcome matt is found all along the border and your country losers are welcomed by the Democrats in Sacramento.

Keep sending your losers to El Norte and stupid tax payers like myself will continue to support these illegal alien losers with free healthcare, free education, free jail cells and even a drivers license so their gang banging son can legally purchase a gun.

There is no cultural shock for your citizens, there's a taco truck on every corner.

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