He’s gonna run on this shit in 2024 isn’t he
:yea:
"It pledges to make low-income adults eligible for the state's Medicaid program by 2024, regardless of their immigration status."
Just expanding medicaid
CA Dems literally spiked a bill that would have enacted single payer not once, but twice in the last 6 years.
What the fuck kinda neolib bullshit is "universal access to healthcare coverage"?
Healthcare plz :doomjak:
So is anyone getting state subsidized healthcare, or is this just "We won't arrest and deport you if you show up at the emergency room without documents"?
Reading headlines it looks like all low income residents of California get free Healthcare? I'll keep looking but if that's true then it's actually relatively good
Edit: I got it - he's expanding medi-cal to undocumented immigrants. Tbh this is good. Medi-cal kinda sucks but it's also better than no Healthcare, saved someone I know about 5k in medical bills for an ER Visit
For people here who don't know how medi-cal works, basically it's free Healthcare that covers birth control, doctor visits, urgent care, etc. It probably covers everything other insurance does. If you go to the ER and you have no insurance and you're low income, nurses will literally just give you the paperwork and it'll cover you. Hence how someone I knew saved 5k in medical bills. Extending this to undocumented immigrants is gonna help quite a bit but it's still gonna be hard to get people who don't know this into the ER.
The amount of people it leaves out of being considered "low income" makes this not as good as it seems. A ton of people that can't actually afford care are deemed able to afford it completely unrealistically.
I mean, it is good that the very poorest at least get help, but if you have a very low paying job with no benefits, you probably don't qualify.
Yeah this is true I believe. I don't know where the cutoff is but the person I know was a student at the time so had no income.
That sounds like it's going to help a lot of people! Didn't realize it covered stuff like that
As far as the right is concerned, it means healthcare provided to non citizens. As far as everyone else, it means squat
Article with more info. It looks like it says he's expanding Medicaid access to low income people who immigrated illegally and that other low income people are expected to get healthcare through Medicaid or purchase health insurance through Covered California, the state owned health insurance provider.
https://apnews.com/article/health-california-immigration-gavin-newsom-medicaid-b09edcb2b89ab041b520f431f8aab4b6
So what does this mean anyway? What does access to Healthcare mean?
"I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust."
Yeah checks out
