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.

  • Flying Squid
    5•1 year ago

    Hope you aren’t a Uighur or a Tibetan.

      • Flying Squid
        6•1 year ago

        So you think ‘Uighur’ and ‘Tibetan’ are secret Lemmy code words for non-CisHet?

        • @[email protected]English
          -2•1 year ago

          No, I just think that you think that anybody who isn’t cishet han in China has it just as bad as anybody who isn’t cishet white in America

          • Flying Squid
            4•1 year ago

            When did I even imply that? What on Earth does being queer have to do with what I said?

            • @[email protected]English
              -2•1 year 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

            • @[email protected]English
              -4•1 year ago

              What on Earth does being a marginalized minority have to do with being a different marginalized minority?

              • Flying Squid
                3•1 year 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.

                • @[email protected]English
                  -1•1 year 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
                    2•1 year 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?