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Medi-Cal under threat: Who’s covered and what could be cut?
Federal law requires states to offer health insurance to many people with low incomes or disabilities. But some states, ...
Most in California support state coverage of health care for migrants without legal status: Survey
Most California voters support the state’s efforts to increase health care coverage for migrants without legal status, a new ...
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Newsom signs $2.8B Medicaid bailout despite Republican attacks
On Monday, Newsom signed legislation to close the budget gap in the state’s Medicaid services to ensure coverage for 15 ...
Newsom signs $2.8B bailout for healthcare program overrun by illegal immigrants
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off on a $2.8B loan to cover healthcare program shortfall due to underestimated costs of ...
Newsom OKs $2.8B to close California's Medicaid funding gap after expanding immigrant coverage
The move will ensure coverage through June for 15 million people, including immigrants, who receive health care via the ...
California showdown over Medicaid as GOP approves massive cuts
Health care advocates and labor unions are mobilizing against proposed cuts, pressuring swing-district Republicans with ...
Pasadena Star-News20h
California halts medical parole, sends critically ill patients back to prison
Prisoners who qualify — excluding inmates sentenced to death or life without parole — can be placed in a community health ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel10d
Medicaid cuts could upend California’s plans for improving mental health
On March 24, the California Department of Health Care Services, which oversees the state’s Medicaid program, received termination letters from the federal Substance Abuse Mental Health Services ...
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California OKs $2.8B to close Medicaid funding gap after expanding immigrant coverage
How will Congress' plan to cut Medicaid funding affect California? The $6.2 billion budget gap is "solvable," state lawmakers said. But Congress' threats of a Medicaid funding cut could add ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution8d
California OKs $2.8B to close Medicaid funding gap after expanding immigrant coverage
who receive health care via the program. The legislation is part of the state's solution to solve the $6.2 billion hole in the state's Medicaid budget. It comes a year after California launched an ...