Governor of California Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, 9 July, signed a bill according to which the poor residents of the state in the age of 25 will be eligible to participate in the state program Medicaid , regardless of immigration status.
California became the first state that offered taxpayer-funded health benefits to adults living illegally in the Golden state.
According to preliminary data, the bill will cover about 90 thousand people and cost taxpayers $98 million a year. Medical insurance in California, by the way, already covers children age 18 and under, regardless of immigration status.
Benefits for health insurance will be provided only to those undocumented immigrants whose income is low enough to meet the requirements.
Further, according to Newsom and the Democrats in California, they plan only to expand the bill. Donald trump has called the move «crazy.»
«We are antithrombosis state in America when it comes to health care, and I’m proud of it,» said the Governor of California, visited the hospital in Sacramento.
He added that within three years the state budget will invest $1.45 billion to increase support Covered California for low-income Californians.
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The new state budget will also support the elderly in California, expanding medical and other vital services to this fast growing part of the state’s population.
So, for example, will be allocated $8 million to combat Alzheimer’s, including research grants and local infrastructure.
