As California’s public insurance roll swells, advocates for immigrants praise the Golden State for an expansion that has helped reduce the uninsured rate to arecord low 6.4%. Providers and hospitals, however, caution that the state hasn’t expanded its workforce adequately or increased Medi-Cal ...
As California's public insurance toll swells, advocates for immigrants praise the Golden State for an expansion that has helped reduce the uninsured rate to a record low 6.4%. Providers and hospitals, however, caution that the state hasn't expanded its workforce adequately or increased Medi-Cal ...
Medical–legal partnershipsQualitative researchUnited StatesThe United States (US) has experienced a surge of anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric, raising concerns about the influence on health outcomes for immigrants living in the US. We conducted qualitative interviews (n=20) with health care and ...
AB 352 (Bauer-Kahan) Enhances privacy protections for medical records related to abortion, pregnancy loss, and other sensitive services through electronic health record sharing and health information exchanges. AB 571 (Petrie-Norris) Ensures that medical malpractice insurance includes coverage for comprehen...
When then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for nearly all Californians to buy health insurance or face a penalty, Anthony Wright slammed the 2007 proposal as "unwarranted, unworkable, and unwise"—one that would punish those who could least afford coverage. The head of Health Access California, ...
That’s because the cost of repairs and medical expenses after an accident have increased over time and exponentially so after the pandemic, said Rex Frazier, president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California. It’s also wasn’t keeping up with rising costs because the minimum limits ...
28 As those aged 26 to 49 years only qualify for restricted Medi-Cal benefits, we used restricted-scope Medi-Cal or uninsured as a proxy for undocumented immigration status.29 Full-scope Medi-Cal provides medical, dental, and vision insurance to eligible low-income California residents, while ...
“other Californians,” legitimate citizens and legal immigrants, are not all eligible for Medi-Cal,California’s Medicaid programfor “children and adults with limited income and resources.” Eligibility for Medi-Cal is“based primarily on your incomeand ‘countable property,’” and those on the...
The proportion of California residents who lack health insurance coverage will decline substantially after full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014. The law contains various provisions to increase coverage, but the main modes of improving affordable coverage options are the expansion...
Covered California health insurance plans — and all health plans in the individual and small-group markets — are sold in four levels of coverage: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. As the metal category increases in value, so does the percentage of medical expenses that a health plan covers...