{"id":12896,"date":"2015-09-10T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speakcityheights.org\/?p=12896"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:57:05","slug":"lawmakers-drop-effort-to-open-covered-california-to-immigrants-here-illegally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/lawmakers-drop-effort-to-open-covered-california-to-immigrants-here-illegally\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Drop Effort to Open Covered California to Immigrants Here Illegally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">By Kenny Goldberg<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbs.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-80\" title=\"media-logo-KPBS-300x148\" src=\"http:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/media-logo-KPBS-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"Logo for K P B S San Diego\" width=\"74\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A legislative effort to allow people who are here illegally to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coveredca.com\/\" rel=\"external\" data-transition=\"none\" data-ajax=\"false\">Covered California<\/a> health plans has been shelved.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/sd33.senate.ca.gov\/\" rel=\"external\" data-transition=\"none\" data-ajax=\"false\">Ricardo Lara<\/a> (D-Bell Gardens) removed a section from his bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leginfo.ca.gov\/pub\/15-16\/bill\/sen\/sb_0001-0050\/sb_4_bill_20150904_amended_asm_v92.htm\" rel=\"external\" data-transition=\"none\" data-ajax=\"false\">Senate Bill 4<\/a>) that would have let those immigrants buy unsubsidized health insurance through California&#8217;s insurance exchange.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppic.org\/main\/publication_show.asp?i=818\" rel=\"external\" data-transition=\"none\" data-ajax=\"false\">2.7 million<\/a> people are living n California illegally. As it stands now, hospital emergency rooms or community clinics are usually the only options when they get sick.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of extending Medi-Cal coverage to this population has been rejected as too expensive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy.ucla.edu\/about\/staff\/pages\/detail.aspx?StaffID=94\" rel=\"external\" data-transition=\"none\" data-ajax=\"false\">Nadereh Pourat<\/a>, director of research of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, said it actually makes financial sense to provide coverage for the uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause you can prevent conditions from getting worse. You can address them early by paying for care in a lower-cost setting,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning next May, California will expand Medi-Cal coverage to the children of people who are living here illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 170,000 immigrant children will be eligible for the program next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kenny Goldberg A legislative effort to allow people who are here illegally to buy Covered California health plans has been shelved. State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) removed a section from his bill (Senate Bill 4) that would have let those immigrants buy unsubsidized health insurance through California&#8217;s insurance exchange. An estimated 2.7 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,159,4],"tags":[1140,349,1215,2102,171,137,1271,643],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-health","category-news","tag-aca","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-covered-california","tag-health","tag-health-reform","tag-immigration","tag-obamacare","tag-undocumented-immigrants"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lawmakers Drop Effort to Open Covered California to Immigrants Here Illegally - Speak City Heights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/lawmakers-drop-effort-to-open-covered-california-to-immigrants-here-illegally\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawmakers Drop Effort to Open Covered California to Immigrants Here Illegally - Speak City Heights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Kenny Goldberg A legislative effort to allow people who are here illegally to buy Covered California health plans has been shelved. 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