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Buying extra insurance costs more than half of her monthly income of under $4,200, but Maria would otherwise have to spend roughly $3,600 each month on medical expenses to be eligible for Medi-Cal.
Medi-Cal was created in 1965 by the California Medical Assistance Program a few months after the national legislation was passed. [2] Approximately 15.28 million people were enrolled in Medi-Cal as of September 2022, [3] or about 40% of California's population; in most counties, more than half of eligible residents were enrolled as of 2020. [4]
The California Department of Health Care Services estimates that 2 million to 3 million Medi-Cal enrollees could lose coverage as a result of income determinations — some because they no longer ...
The California Medical Assistance Program (Medi-Cal) is California's Medicaid program serving low-income families, seniors, persons with disabilities, children in foster care, pregnant women, and childless adults with incomes below 138% of federal poverty level.
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Of the 5.4 million Californians who gained health insurance coverage during this period, 1.4 million received coverage through Covered California, and 4.1 million received coverage from the expansion of Medi-Cal. [30] The number of individuals covered through the exchange has not increased significantly from the 1.4 million who enrolled during ...
Low-income Californians 50 and older will be eligible for healthcare regardless of immigration status under a law extending benefits to 235,000 residents in the country illegally.
AIM was first introduced in 1992, and provided for 3,000-4,000 women annually initially. It is difficult to assess the impact of AIM as it was introduced alongside many other maternal healthcare improvement policies including increasing the eligibility limit for Medi-Cal from 110% to 200% of the federal poverty line, and extending Medi-Cal to undocumented foreign-born women.