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California voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 35, the measure that cements an existing tax on health plans to help fund the Medi-Cal program, as election results continued to be tallied Wednesday.
The California Medical Assistance Program (Medi-Cal or MediCal) is the California implementation of the federal Medicaid program serving low-income individuals, including families, seniors, persons with disabilities, children in foster care, pregnant women, and childless adults with incomes below 138% of federal poverty level.
After the passage of the ACA, 32 states used the funding of the ACA to expand their state's low-income insurance programs, such as Medi-Cal, and 19 states opted out. The 19 states, as of 2014, had a 15% higher poverty rate than the 32 states that chose to expand their services. California was one of the states to expand its Medicaid program. [6]
Covered California receives no funding from state taxes; as of January 2014, it had received $1.1 billion in federal funds, but needed to be self-supporting by January 2015. [23] The estimated expenditures for personnel in fiscal year 2014-15 were $108 million. [ 22 ]
The previous owners had not accepted patients on Medicaid, which covers roughly a third of California's 39 million residents. ... have been clamoring for California’s Medicaid program, known as ...
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Welfare in California consists of federal welfare programs—which are often at least partially administered by state and county agencies—and several independent programs, which are usually administered by counties. Some of the largest California-specific programs are: MediCal, the California Medicaid program
2010-2013 Healthy Families, the California version of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program (Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Yolo counties only). In 2013, the Healthy Families Program was folded into Medi-Cal as part of the Affordable Care Act. 2005-2016 Healthy Kids.