NEW: Just signed our budget. California will now be the first state in the nation to achieve universal access to healthcare coverage.This is what being “pro-life” ACTUALLY looks like.— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 1, 2022
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.
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